Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In wine there is health.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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