Pliny the Elder Quotes - Page 3

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• The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

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  Knowledge, Science, Selfishness

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• On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

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  Eye, Farming, Masters

  "Natural History".

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• Hope is a working-man's dream.

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  Dream, Hope, Men

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• Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

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  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

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  Distance, Men, Hands

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.421, Delphi Classics

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• No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Men, Shining

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• 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 extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

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  Miscarriage, Son, Thinking

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• The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

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  Perception, Brain, Intellect

  Natural History XI.49

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• 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.

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  Wine, Men, Water

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• Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

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  Food, Wine, Sadness

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• 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.

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  Doctors, Law, Example

  Historia Naturalis 'Greek Physicians'

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• 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.

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  Mother, Men, Enemy

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• Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

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  Country, Years, Youth

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• When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

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  Latin, Rodents, Littles

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• Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

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  Income, Economy

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• Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

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  Names, Parent, Suffering

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• But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

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  Adversity, Men, Misfortunes

  "Complete Works of Pliny the Elder".

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• Human nature is fond of novelty.

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  Novelty, Human Nature, Humans

  "Historia Naturalis". XII, 5, 3,

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• Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

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  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

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  Soul, Sickness

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• It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

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  Pay, Ridiculous, Affair

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

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  Country, Stars, Honesty

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• The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

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  Courage, Men, Class

  "The Natural History of Pliny".

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• In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

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  Wine, Vino

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• War should neither be feared nor provoked.

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  War, Should, Provoked

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