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• 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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• The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 31...
• 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...
• It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late
  and again, that everything must be done at its proper seaso...
• The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
  ... A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance....
• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill
  he same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows,--when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work....
• It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xiv, Sect. 141...
• 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...