The happier the moment the shorter.
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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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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.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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No one is wise at all times.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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