No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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 ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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 ELDERThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERCats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDERThe only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
PLINY THE ELDERNo man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
PLINY THE ELDER