Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERA 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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