Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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 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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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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No one is wise at all times.
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