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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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Lust 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.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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