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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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No one is wise at all times.
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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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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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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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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