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 ELDERThe 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 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 ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
PLINY THE ELDERThe brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
PLINY THE ELDERLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERMan alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERThe most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY THE ELDERThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERTo laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
PLINY THE ELDERNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER