It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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 Quote - It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/it-the-earth-alone-remains-immoveable-whilst-all-t-683x1024.jpg)
