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«Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«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 extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«With a grain of salt.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«From the end spring new beginnings.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«The happier the moment the shorter.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«The brain is the citadel of sense perception.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
«There is always something new out of Africa.»
Author: Pliny The Elder
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