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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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- Pliny The Elder
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- Approximate author period: c. 51 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Natural History, Book vii. Sect. 4.
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