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 ELDERSuch is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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 -
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDER -
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDER -
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Chance is a second master.
PLINY THE ELDER -
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER -
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
PLINY THE ELDER -
How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDER -
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 -
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER -
No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDER