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One Quotes by Pliny the Elder
- No one is wise at all times.
- Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
- 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…
- Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately…
- 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…
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