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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
Pliny the Elder
Truth comes out in wine.
Pliny the Elder
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
Pliny the Elder
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
Pliny the Elder
Hope is a working-man's dream.
Pliny the Elder
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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
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
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Pliny the Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
Pliny the Elder
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
Pliny the Elder
