Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature is fond of novelty.
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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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