Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERWine 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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
PLINY THE ELDERAs 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 ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERMen are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
PLINY THE ELDERLust 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 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 ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER