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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
Caius P. Secundus
C. Plinius Secundus
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Lust 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.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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