black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDER

Advice Buyer Deep Disagree Judgment Query Reflection Think
Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDER

Fond Human Nature Novelty One Liner
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
PLINY THE ELDER

Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER

Deep Easy Honor Motivation Obligation Important Strong
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER

Affect Assume Emotion Genuine Imagine Incredible Nature
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER

Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDER

Death Goodness Human Life Short
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
PLINY THE ELDER

Crime Expense Nation Reason Sanity Wine
No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER

Attempt Hope Life One Liner Patience Positive Task Time Try Wisdom Wise
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDER

Alone Earth Move Remain
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 up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDER

Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDER

Man Weep
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDER

Believe Desire God Hope Lust Men Wish
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
PLINY THE ELDER

Death Evil God Himself Life Man
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
PLINY THE ELDER

Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDER

Democracy Economy Income Life Liquid Money

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes