No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERNo book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERBut with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERThe most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERMen are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERNow, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDER….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
PLINY THE ELDERI think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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 ELDERGrief 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 ELDERA 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