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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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 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 youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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