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.
PLINY THE ELDERLust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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In wine there is health.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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