I 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 ELDERIt [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
-
-
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDER -
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
PLINY THE ELDER -
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER -
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER -
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
PLINY THE ELDER -
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDER