This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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