Pliny the Elder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dream #Hope #Men
In wine, there's truth.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Wine
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 Elder

#Dream #Morning #Eye
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Sadness #Wine #Care
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Wine #Body #Culinary
There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Flower #Skills #Smell
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Found #Creatures #Smallest
Such 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 Elder

#Men #Challenges #Audacity
From the end spring new beginnings.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Spring #New Beginnings #Ends
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Eye #Afar #Neglect
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

#Failure #Adversity #Darkness
Truth comes out in wine.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Wine #Truth Comes Out
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Marriage #Education #Goal
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Wine #Men #Water
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

#Lust #Wealth #Prosperity
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Strong #Honor #Obligation
With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Adversity #Men #Misfortunes
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Matter #Certain #Certainty
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Reputation #Good Reputation #Shameful
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Names #Touching #Peaches
Chance is a second master.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Chance #Masters
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.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Men #Heaven #Mind
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.
-- Pliny the Elder

#Land #Four #Messengers
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

#Garden #Smell #Taste
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

#Wise #Mind #May

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