The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Home is where the heart is.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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