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Plinius major · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 01.01.0023 in Novum Comum/Como
Gestorben am 24.08.0079 in Stabiae
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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• Harmless thunderbolts.

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• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.

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• I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

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• In wine there is truth.

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• Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

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• Magic is detestable, vain and idle . . . though it has what I might call shadows of truth.

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• Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught.

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• Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

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• No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

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• No one is wise at all times.

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• Nothing is more wretched or more proud than man.

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• Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.

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• Our civilization depends largely on paper.

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• Physicians acquire their knowledgr from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.

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• The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

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• The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

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• There have been rains of milk, blood, flesh, iron, sponges, wool, and baked bricks.

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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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• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

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