A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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