No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Chance is a second master.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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 wine, there’s truth.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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