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• The world, and whatever that be which we call the heave
  by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction....
• 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.
  249...
• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...
• Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book ii, Sect. 234...
• 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...
• 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...