Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
PLINY THE ELDERAs for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
PLINY THE ELDERAs touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
PLINY THE ELDERIn 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 ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERTo 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 ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
PLINY THE ELDERWe live by reposing trust in each other.
PLINY THE ELDER