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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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No one is wise at all times.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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 world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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