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.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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