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 things.
Pliny the ElderA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.
Pliny the ElderSuch 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 ElderThe graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
Pliny the ElderMen are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
Pliny the ElderThe leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.
Pliny the Elder