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.
PLINY THE ELDERWe live by reposing trust in each other.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Home is where the heart is.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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