True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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