Pliny the ElderNo one is wise at all times. ✨ Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Historia Naturalis, VII. 41. 2, 1922.372Time
Pliny the ElderIn these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.374Death
Pliny the ElderContact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and… ▶342Death
Pliny the ElderThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs. ✨ The Natural History of P… ▶353Death
Pliny the ElderIn wine, there's truth. ✨ Pliny the Elder (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated), Delphi Classics354Truth
Pliny the ElderThe ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of… ▶355HumanityTimeTruth
Pliny the ElderAn object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ✨ The Letters of Pliny the Younger. Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.355Reading
Pliny the ElderNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. ✨ Historia Naturalis, VII. 51. 3 in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p… ▶311Life
Pliny the ElderThere is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.356Reading
Pliny the ElderOn a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye. ✨ Natural History.335Hope
Pliny the ElderThe most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.281Death
Pliny the ElderWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.358Hope
Pliny the ElderOur civilization depends largely on paper.338Humanity
Pliny the ElderLet honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.296Thought
Pliny the ElderIt is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.253Humor
Pliny the ElderThe leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish bl… ▶298Politics
Pliny the ElderThere is, to be sure, no evil without something good.243Death
Pliny the ElderFrom the end spring new beginnings.213Life
Pliny the ElderAmong these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.247Sadness
Pliny the ElderNulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.236Death
Pliny the ElderAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. ✨ Natural History II258Life
Pliny the ElderThe brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception. … ▶215Thought
Pliny the ElderThe best plan is to profit by the folly of others.171Hope
Pliny the ElderWine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.2610Sadness
Pliny the ElderSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.171Sadness
Pliny the ElderThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.171Reading
Pliny the ElderThe enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.2610Life
Pliny the Elder....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.193Life
Pliny the ElderTrue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.249ReadingTruth
Pliny the ElderNo mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.2510DeathTime
