Pliny the Elder
From the end spring new beginnings.Collection: Sympathy
Home is where the heart is.Collection: Home
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.Collection: Hope
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Failure
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.Collection: Exercise
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.Collection: Matter
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.Collection: Marriage
Nothing is so unequal as equality.Collection: Equality
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.Collection: Envy
In wine, there's truth.Collection: Wine
Better do nothing than do ill.Collection: Ill
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.Collection: Men
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.Collection: Found
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.Collection: Wine
No one is wise at all times.Collection: Wise
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.Collection: Writing
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.Collection: Book
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.Collection: Profit
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?Collection: Doe
Many dishes bring many diseases.Collection: Disease
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.Collection: Hands
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.Collection: Men
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.Collection: Sympathy
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.Collection: Simple
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.Collection: Dragons
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.Collection: Stars
Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.Collection: Simple
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.Collection: Animal
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Men
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.Collection: Vanity
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.Collection: Income
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.Collection: Causes
...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.Collection: Food
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.Collection: Pay
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.Collection: Common
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.Collection: Men
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.Collection: Men
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.Collection: Powerful
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.Collection: Certain
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Beautiful
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 list.Collection: Two
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.Collection: Men
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.Collection: Men
Human nature craves novelty.Collection: Novelty
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.Collection: Incredibles
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.Collection: Science