Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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 -
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDER -
There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDER -
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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 -
In wine, there’s truth.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDER -
In 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 ELDER -
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDER