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• Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

  Pliny the Elder

  Powerful, Believe, Math

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1989). “Pliny: Natural History”

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• Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mean, Vanity, Departed

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Touching, Peaches

  "Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591,

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• Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

  Pliny the Elder

  Stars, Flower, Food

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• The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

  Pliny the Elder

  Animal, Men, Tears

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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

  Numbers, Purpose, Belief

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

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