The only certainty is uncertainty
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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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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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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Chance is a second master.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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