War should neither be feared nor provoked.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Chance is a second master.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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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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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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