Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERNo man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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