Votes go by number, not weight; nor can it be otherwise in … - Pliny the Younger

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Votes go by number, not weight; nor can it be otherwise in assemblies of this kind, where nothing is more unequal than that equality which prevails in them.

Pliny the Younger

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, an author and a natural philosopher of Ancient Rome.

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Alternative Names: C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus • Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus • the Younger Pliny • Gaius Caecilius Cilo

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They will by this means receive their education where they receive their birth, and be accustomed from their infancy to inhabit and affect their native soil.

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His only fault is that he has no fault.

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