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In nuce. (łac.)
nawiązanie do opowiadania Cycerona o rękopisie Iliady Homera, mogącym się zmieścić w skorupce orzecha.
Znaczenie: w jak najbardziej zwięzłej formie.

„Ani dnia bez linii.”

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Nulla dies sine linea. (łac.)
słowa wypowiedziane przez greckiego malarza Apellesa.
Znaczenie: każdego dnia należy starać się uczynić choćby najmniejszy postęp w pracy twórczej.
Historia naturalna

„Z Afryki zawsze coś nowego.”

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Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. (łac.)
greckie powiedzenie używane w starożytności, znane w wersji: Co nowego z Afryki?, przytoczone przez Arystotelesa w Historii naturalnej zwierząt, VIII, 28.
Historia naturalna
Źródło: II, 8, 42

„Jak gdyby było coś nieszczęśliwszego od człowieka, nad którym panują urojenia.”

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Quasi quidquam infelicius sit homine cui sua figmenta dominantur (łac.)
Historia naturalna
Źródło: II, 7

„Nieszkodliwy piorun.”

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Brutum fulmen. (łac.)
Historia naturalna
Źródło: 2, 43

„Z ziarnkiem soli.”

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Cum grano salis. (łac.)
cytat sparafrazowany, w wersji wcześniejszej: Addito salis grano (Dodawszy szczyptę soli).
Znaczenie: z dodatkiem sceptycyzmu.
Historia naturalna
Źródło: XXIII, 8, 149

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“Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.”

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Pliny the Elder książka Historia naturalna

Book VII, sec. 4.
Naturalis Historia

“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”

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Pliny the Elder książka Historia naturalna

Book XXVIII, sec. 23.
Naturalis Historia

“Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.”

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Pliny the Elder książka Historia naturalna

Book XVIII, sec. 44.
Naturalis Historia

“When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.”
ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant...

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Pliny the Elder książka Historia naturalna

Book VIII, sec. 103.
Naturalis Historia

“It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.”

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Pliny the Elder książka Historia naturalna

Book VII, sec. 1.
Naturalis Historia

“The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.”

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Book XVIII, sec. 31.
Naturalis Historia

“With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.”

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Book VII, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia

“It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.”

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Book XIV, sec. 141.
Naturalis Historia

“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.”

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Book VIII, sec. 126.
Naturalis Historia

“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.”

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Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia

“To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.”

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Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia

“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.”

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Book VII, sec. 8.
Naturalis Historia

“It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,—a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms…. Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, —a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.”

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Book XXXV, sec. 84.
Naturalis Historia

“It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.”

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Pliny the Elder książka Historia naturalna

Book II, sec. 20.
Naturalis Historia

“Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?”

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Book VII, sec. 6.
Naturalis Historia

“With a grain of salt.”
Cum grano salis.

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Book XXIII, sec. 8.
Naturalis Historia

“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 tradition says, stripped to the work.”

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Book XVIII, sec. 20.
Naturalis Historia

“Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.”

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Book II, sec. 234.
Naturalis Historia

“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortes Fortuna iuvat.

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Pliny the Elder

Attributed by Pliny the Younger to his uncle during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in which the Elder died
Quoted in [Pliny, translated by William Melmoth, Letters of Pliny, c.100 CE, eBook, 1927, Bibliobytes, Hoboken, NJ, English, ISBN 0585049971, LXV, to Tacitus http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2811/2811-h/2811-h.htm#link2H_4_0065, p. 48, Here he stopped to consider whether he should turn back again; to which the pilot advising him, "Fortune", said he, "favours the brave; steer to where Pomponianus is."]
Commonly quoted as "Fortune favours the bold".

“It is generally admitted that the absent are warned by a ringing in the ears, when they are being talked about.”
Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.

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Book XXVIII, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia

“This is Italy, land sacred to the Gods.”
Haec est Italia diis sacra

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Book III, sec. 46.
Naturalis Historia

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”

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Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia