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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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