In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
PLINY THE ELDERLust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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In wine there is health.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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