Tao Te Ching

“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.”

— Pliny 23 – 79 CE
(Pliny Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder)
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from Natural History