Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDER -
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDER -
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLINY THE ELDER -
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
PLINY THE ELDER -
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDER -
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER -
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 -
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
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 -
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDER






