Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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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 only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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