Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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