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  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 44...
• 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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• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpe
  and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water....
• 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...