“The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.”Pliny the Elder book Natural HistoryBook VII, sec. 8. Naturalis Historia
“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 repentance.”Pliny the Elder book Natural HistoryBook XVIII, sec. 26. Naturalis Historia
“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 substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.”Pliny the Elder book Natural HistoryBook VII, sec. 15. Naturalis Historia