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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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The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
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Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black those of Breotia are more red than black and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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There is alas no law against incompetency no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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 comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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