The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERIn time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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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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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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