The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine, there’s truth.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The 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.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking 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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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