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Pliny The Elder Quotes
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War should neither be feared nor provoked (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
We live by reposing trust in each other (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
It is far from easy to determine whether she has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked Earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
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 The Elder Quotes)
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected? (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
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 (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born; not after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
It is this Earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man (Pliny The Elder Quotes)
Man alone at the very moment of this birth, cast naked upon the Earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations (Pliny The Elder Quotes)