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Up Quotes by Pliny the Elder
- Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
- Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the…
- Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
- The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they…
- Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked…
- Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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