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.
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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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It 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.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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