It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERCats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDERThis only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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 ELDERHis only fault is that he has no fault.
PLINY THE ELDERMany dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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 ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERThe depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
PLINY THE ELDERIt has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDER