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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

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Pliny the Elder

No one is wise at all times.

Pliny the Elder

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Elder

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

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

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Pliny the Elder

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Pliny the Elder

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny the Elder

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Pliny the Elder

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Pliny the Elder

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Pliny the Elder

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

Pliny the Elder

Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

Pliny the Elder

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

Pliny the Elder

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny the Elder

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Pliny the Elder

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.

Pliny the Elder

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Pliny the Elder

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Pliny the Elder

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

Pliny the Elder

Truth comes out in wine.

Pliny the Elder

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

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

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

Pliny the Elder

Hope is a working-man's dream.

Pliny the Elder

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Pliny the Elder

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Pliny the Elder

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

Pliny the Elder

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

Pliny the Elder

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

Pliny the Elder

We live by reposing trust in each other.

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

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Pliny the Elder

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 up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny the Elder

The 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

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

Pliny the Elder

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

Pliny the Elder

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 to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Pliny the Elder

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Pliny the Elder

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Pliny the Elder

The only certainty is uncertainty

Pliny the Elder

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

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

There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

Pliny the Elder
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