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Pliny the Elder
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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
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More quotes by Pliny the Elder
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny the Elder
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
Pliny the Elder
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
Pliny the Elder
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
Pliny the Elder
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
Pliny the Elder
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
Pliny the Elder
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
Pliny the Elder
Better do nothing than do ill.
Pliny the Elder
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
Pliny the Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
Pliny the Elder
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
Pliny the Elder
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
Pliny the Elder
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
Pliny the Elder
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
Pliny the Elder
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
Pliny the Elder
