Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Home is where the heart is.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Chance is a second master.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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