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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
Caius P. Secundus
C. Plinius Secundus
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
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There is alas no law against incompetency no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.
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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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