We live by reposing trust in each other.
PLINY THE ELDERSuch is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Home is where the heart is.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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