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.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Human nature craves 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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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