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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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.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDERMan 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.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
PLINY THE ELDERAlways act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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