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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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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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As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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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 youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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