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“All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substanc...”
“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a ...”
“Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.”
“It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.”
“It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.”
“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 ...”
“The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs…. A bad bargain is always a ground for re...”
“Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.”
“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 season; while there is a third precept which reminds ...”
“The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.”
“Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.”
“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”
“The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.”
“Cum grano salis.”
“Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.”
