The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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