"Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what……" — Pliny the Elder
"Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!"
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Pliny the Elder
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71 Quotes by Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder has 71 quotes on this site.
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language…
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head;…
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to…
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The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least…
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More Bird Quotes
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
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