Quote #12
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
More from Pliny the Elder
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- Cum grano salis.
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- True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
- With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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