Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER -
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 -
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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 -
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
PLINY THE ELDER -
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDER -
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER