Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
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sympathy suicide men
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
suicide suicidal men
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
numbers purpose belief
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
dream hope men
Hope is a working-man's dream.
football silly games
Sure, football is a silly game. But have you seen what else is on television?
happiness moments
The happier the moment the shorter.
soul sickness
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
mean vanity departed
... 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...
life evil equal
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
home heart home-is-where-the-heart-is
Home is where the heart is.
powerful believe math
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
miscarriage son thinking
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!
men training taught
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
happiness true-happiness deserving
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.