We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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In wine there is health.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Home is where the heart is.
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No one is wise at all times.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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