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His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny the Elder
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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
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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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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Home is where the heart is.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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