Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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
Deep
Listen
Hear
Interest
Ever
Men
Novelty
Charming
More quotes by Pliny the Elder
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
Pliny the Elder
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
Pliny the Elder
Hope is a working-man's dream.
Pliny the Elder
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
Pliny the Elder
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Elder
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
Pliny the Elder
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
Pliny the Elder
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
Pliny the Elder
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
Pliny the Elder
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
Pliny the Elder
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
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
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Pliny the Elder
Truth comes out in wine.
Pliny the Elder
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
Pliny the Elder
No one is wise at all times.
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
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny the Elder
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
Pliny the Elder
