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English	Latin
(fig.) licking a cub into shape (Pliny the Elder)	lambendo paulatim figurant
a brief time if you count the years; an age if you count the changes it brought forth (Pliny the Younger)	si computes annos, exiguum tempus; si vices rerum, ævum putes
a monument is an unnecessary expense; our memory will endure if we have earned it by our life (Pliny the Younger)	impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostra durabit si vita meruimus
an object in possession seldom retains the same charms that it had when it was longed for (Pliny the Younger)	nihil enim æque gratum est adeptis, quam concupiscentibus
and as in men’s bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head (Pliny the Younger)	utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur
Attic salt (i.e., a keen wit) (Pliny the Elder)	sal Atticum
fields left fallow recover their fertility (Pliny the Elder)	derelicta fertilius revivescunt
he is gone from us, full of years and full of honors (Pliny the Younger)	plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus
he reads no book from which he did not make extracts. He also used to say, no book was so bad but good of some kind might be got out of it (Pliny the Elder)	nihil enim legit, quod non excerperet. Dicere etiam solebat, nullum esse librum tam malum, ut non aliqua parte prodesset
his last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born; not after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth (Pliny the Elder)	omnibus a suprema die eadem, quæ ante primum; nec magis a morte sensus ullus aut corpori aut animæ quam ante natalem
his only sin is that he does not sin (Pliny the Younger)	nihil peccat nisi quod nihil peccat
history should not overstep the limits of truth, and indeed, in recording noble deeds, the truth is sufficient (Pliny the Younger)	nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit
history, however written, is always a pleasure to us (Pliny the Younger)	historia quo quomodo scripta delectat
human nature is greedy of novelty (Pliny the Elder)	natura hominum novitatis avida
in these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain (Pliny the Elder)	solum ut inter ista certum sit nihil esse certi

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