As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Home is where the heart is.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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In wine there is health.
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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 is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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