Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes:… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
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