As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature is fond of novelty.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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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.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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