Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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
Time
Collects
Anew
Sickness
Soul
More quotes by Pliny the Elder
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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
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
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
Pliny the Elder
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
Pliny the Elder
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
Pliny the Elder
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Elder
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late and again, that everything must be done at its proper season while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
Pliny the Elder
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
Pliny the Elder
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
Pliny the Elder
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
Pliny the Elder
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
Pliny the Elder
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
Pliny the Elder
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
Pliny the Elder
