It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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