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 ELDERIt is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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