Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Learn
Alas
Death
Doctor
Persons
Experiments
Incompetency
Person
Murder
Jeopardy
Made
Doctors
Bodily
Make
Patient
Punished
Example
Striking
Law
Patients
More quotes by 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
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny the Elder
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
Pliny the Elder
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
Pliny the Elder
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Pliny the Elder
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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
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
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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
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
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
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
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
Pliny the Elder
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder
