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From the end spring new beginnings.

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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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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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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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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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No one is wise at all times.
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