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
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as… — 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
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly.… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. — 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
