The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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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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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.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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