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• The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure."

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Perfect, Doubt

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• Man naturally yearns for novelty.

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  Men, Novelty

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• The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

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  Discovery, Found, Valuable

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• No book so bad but some part may be of use.

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  Book, Use, May

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• It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

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  Wine, Common, Vino

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• Truth comes out in wine.

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  Wine, Truth Comes Out

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• In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

  Pliny the Elder

  Compare, Former, Acknowledgment

  "Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book I, Dedication, sec. 22.), 1669.

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• Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

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  Dream, Morning, Wine

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• His only fault is that he has no fault.

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  Faults

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• Our civilization depends largely on paper.

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  Civilization, Paper, Depends

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• There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.

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  Flower, Wind, Skills

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• 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.

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  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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• Chance is a second master.

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  Chance, Masters, Chances Are

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• We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

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  Men, Novelty, Charming

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• Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

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  Lust, Mind, Enemy

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• As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

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  Wise, Mind, May

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• The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

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  Life, Evil, Equal

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• The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

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  Sex, Science, Black

  "The Natural History of Pliny".

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• We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

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  Passion, Envy, Inferiority

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• The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

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  Cutting, Hair, Rome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 57, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter LIX. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

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  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

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  Cat, Light, Bird

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the 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.

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  Land, Ploughing, Four

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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• A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

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  Reflection, Judgment, Buyers

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• A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

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  Death, Sovereign, Human Life

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