No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
PLINY THE ELDER -
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
As 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 ELDER -
There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER -
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDER -
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Truth comes out in wine.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDER -
His only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE ELDER -
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The 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 ELDER






