More from Pliny the Elder

  1. The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
  2. True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
  3. When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
  4. It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips …
  5. The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands o…
  6. 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 up…
  7. With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  8. 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 short he…

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