Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Home is where the heart is.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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?
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Not a day without a line.
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