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• 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...
• 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...
• 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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• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book ii, Sect. 20...
• 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...
• 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...
• Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 44...