The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
PLINY THE ELDERWine 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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