Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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In wine there is health.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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