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.
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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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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