Quotes by Pliny The Elder

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Quotations about Birth

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was bo >>

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us >>

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Pliny The Elder