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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
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
— Pliny The Younger
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
The happier time, the quicker it passes
— Pliny The Younger
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
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
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
— Pliny The Younger
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
The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.
— Pliny The Younger
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
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
— Pliny The Younger
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
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
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
— Pliny The Younger
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
Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know.
— Pliny The Younger
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
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
— Pliny The Elder
No one is wise at all times.
— 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
Truth comes out in wine.
— Pliny The Elder
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
— 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
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
— Pliny The Elder
You summon us, we follow. You order us to be free and so we will be.
— Pliny The Younger
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
— Pliny The Younger
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
— Pliny The Younger
His only fault is that he has no fault.
— 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
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
— Pliny The Younger
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
That those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.
— Pliny The Younger
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
— Pliny The Elder
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
— Pliny The Younger
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
— Pliny The Elder
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
— Pliny The Elder
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
— Pliny The Elder
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
— 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
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
— Pliny The Elder
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
— Pliny The Elder
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
— 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
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
— Pliny The Elder
Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and
— Shashi Tharoor
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.
— Pliny The Younger
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
— Pliny The Elder
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
— Pliny The Elder
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
— 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
The happier the moment the shorter.
— 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
There is always something new out of Africa.
— Pliny The Elder
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
— Pliny The Elder
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
— Pliny The Elder
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,
— 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
It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.
— Pliny The Elder
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
— Pliny The Younger
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
— Pliny The Younger
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
— Pliny The Elder
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
— Pliny The Younger
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
— Pliny The Younger
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
— Pliny The Elder
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
— Pliny The Elder
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.
— Pliny The Younger
Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.
— Pliny The Younger
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
— Pliny The Younger
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
— Pliny The Elder
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
— Pliny The Elder
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...
— Pliny The Younger