In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
The 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 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 -
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Many dishes bring many diseases.
PLINY THE ELDER -
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
PLINY THE ELDER -
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER -
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDER -
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER -
….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
PLINY THE ELDER -
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.
PLINY THE ELDER -
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 ELDER -
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
PLINY THE ELDER