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Pliny the Elder
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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
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More quotes by Pliny the Elder
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Pliny the Elder
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
Pliny the Elder
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
Pliny the Elder
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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.
Pliny the Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
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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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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
Pliny the Elder
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
Pliny the Elder
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
Pliny the Elder
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.
Pliny the Elder
From the end spring new beginnings.
Pliny the Elder
