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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
— Pliny The Elder
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
— Pliny The Elder
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
— Pliny The Elder
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
— Pliny The Elder
We live by reposing trust in each other.
— Pliny The Elder
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
— Pliny The Elder
Hope is a working-man's dream.
— Pliny The Elder
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.
— Pliny The Elder
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
— Pliny The Elder
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny The Elder
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
— Pliny The Elder
In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain
— Pliny The Elder
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny The Elder
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
— Pliny The Elder
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
— Pliny The Elder
From the end spring new beginnings.
— Pliny The Elder
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
— Pliny The Elder
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
— Pliny The Elder
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
— Pliny The Elder
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
— Pliny The Elder
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
— Pliny The Elder
In wine, there's truth.
— Pliny The Elder
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
— Pliny The Elder
The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
— Pliny The Elder
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
— Pliny The Elder
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
— Pliny The Elder
[Pliny the Elder] used to say that no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.
— Pliny The Younger
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
— Pliny The Elder
Human nature is fond of novelty.
— Pliny The Elder
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
— Pliny The Elder
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
— Pliny The Elder
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
— Pliny The Elder
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
— Pliny The Elder
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
— Pliny The Elder
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
— 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
Chance is a second master.
— Pliny The Elder
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
— Pliny The Elder
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
— Pliny The Elder
No one is wise at all times.
— Pliny The Elder
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
— Pliny The Elder
Truth comes out in wine.
— Pliny The Elder
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny The Elder
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
— Pliny The Elder
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
— Pliny The Elder
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
— 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
It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.
— Pliny The Elder
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
— Pliny The Elder
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
— Pliny The Elder
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
— Pliny The Elder
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
— Pliny The Elder
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
— 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
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
— Pliny The Elder
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
— Pliny The Elder
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
— Pliny The Elder
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
— Pliny The Elder
There is always something new out of Africa.
— Pliny The Elder
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
— Pliny The Elder
The happier the moment the shorter.
— Pliny The Elder
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
— Pliny The Elder
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
— Pliny The Elder
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
— Pliny The Elder
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
— Pliny The Elder
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
— Pliny The Elder
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.
— Pliny The Elder
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
— Pliny The Elder
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
— Pliny The Elder
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
— 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
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
— Pliny The Elder
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
— Pliny The Elder
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
— Pliny The Elder
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
— Pliny The Elder
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,
— Pliny The Elder
His only fault is that he has no fault.
— Pliny The Elder
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
— Pliny The Elder
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
— Pliny The Elder
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
— 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 happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
— Pliny The Elder