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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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