The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little… — Pliny the Elder
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
In the original Latin
iam in facie vultuque nostro cum sint decem aut paulo plura membra, nullas duas in tot milibus hominum indiscretas effigies existere, quod ars nulla in paucis numero praestet adfectando!
Naturalis Historia · 77
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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.
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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 7.