Pliny the Elder Quotes

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• Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in…
• Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately…
• There is always something new out of Africa.
• Truth comes out in wine.
• It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
• Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted…
• A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.
• Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
• The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
• 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…
• Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all…
• Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
• Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked…
• Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
• How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
• Home is where the heart is.
• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
• 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…
• From the end spring new beginnings.
• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

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