The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
PLINY THE ELDERThe perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERLet not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
PLINY THE ELDERNot a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDERBut with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
PLINY THE ELDERI think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERIn comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
PLINY THE ELDEROur civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDERBetter do nothing than do ill.
PLINY THE ELDER