But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Not a day without a line.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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