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• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xxviii, Sect. 23...
• Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 2...
• Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xix, Sect. 59...
• When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book viii, Sect. 103...
• The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo. -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect.
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• It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 1...
• To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 2...
• 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 of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 77...