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.
PLINY THE ELDERThere is always something new out of Africa.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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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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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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