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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
Caius P. Secundus
C. Plinius Secundus
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More quotes by Pliny the Elder
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
Pliny the Elder
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
Pliny the Elder
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
Pliny the Elder
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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
Hope is a working-man's dream.
Pliny the Elder
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
Pliny the Elder
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
Pliny the Elder
No one is wise at all times.
Pliny the Elder
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
Pliny the Elder
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
Pliny the Elder
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Elder
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
Pliny the Elder
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
Pliny the Elder
