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 ELDERHome is where the heart is.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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