….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
PLINY THE ELDEROur civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDERThe depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
PLINY THE ELDERThe lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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