Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
Pliny the Elder
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Pliny the Elder
Author
Historian
Military Personnel
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
Caius P. Secundus
C. Plinius Secundus
Plinius
Pliny
the Elder Pliny
Drinks
Pleasant
Wine
Drink
Best
Kind
More quotes by 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
Better do nothing than do ill.
Pliny the Elder
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
Pliny the Elder
There is alas no law against incompetency no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.
Pliny the Elder
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Pliny the Elder
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
Pliny the Elder
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny the Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
Pliny the Elder
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
Pliny the Elder
We live by reposing trust in each other.
Pliny the Elder
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
Pliny the Elder
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Pliny the Elder
The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny the Elder
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
Pliny the Elder
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
Pliny the Elder
Hope is a working-man's dream.
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
