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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 2.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 2.

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No man is wise at all times.

Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

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Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

Vitruvius

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Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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When collating authorities I have found that the most professedly reliable and modern writers have copied the old authors word for word, without acknowledgement.

Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, dedication.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, preface.

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