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Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

Pliny the Elder
Simple, Meat, Sauce
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15Natural History, Book XI, Chapter LIII. Holland's translation, 1922.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Pliny the Elder
Dragons, Snakes, Tree

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Pliny the Elder
Powerful, Believe, Math
Pliny (the Elder.) (1989). “Pliny: Natural History”

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.

Pliny the Elder
Mean, Vanity, Departed
Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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.

Pliny the Elder
Names, Touching, Peaches
"Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591,

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Pliny the Elder
Animal, Men, Tears

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