“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon t…” — Pliny the Elder

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

— Pliny the Elder

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Title: Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder
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Elder, Pliny the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Pliny the Elder. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder

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