Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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