The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
PLINY THE ELDERAmong these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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In wine there is health.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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