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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!
Pliny the ElderBirth - 2
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the ElderHome - 3
In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
Pliny the ElderCertainty - 4
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Pliny the ElderReputation - 5
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
Pliny the ElderHonour -
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Pliny the ElderBelief - 7
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny the ElderAdversity - 8
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
Pliny the ElderLife and Living - 9
The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny the ElderHappiness - 10
The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
Pliny the ElderFarming and Farmers - 11
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the ElderCertainty - 12
There is always something new out of Africa.
Pliny the ElderNation - 13
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read
Pliny the Elder - 14
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
Pliny the ElderFame
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