In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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