What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. I... - Pliny the Elder

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the luxuries and conceits of life that we laboriously struggle."

Pliny the Elder Nature

Naturalist Author Ancient Rome 23–79

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