Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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In wine there is health.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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