Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERIn wine there is health.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER -
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
PLINY THE ELDER -
From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER -
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
PLINY THE ELDER -
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
PLINY THE ELDER -
Human nature craves novelty.
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 -
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 -
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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 -
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER