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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dream hope men
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
something-new
There is always something new out of Africa.
way secure neighbour
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
spring new-beginnings ends
From the end spring new beginnings.
dog fall wine
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.
reputation shameful loses
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
dream morning 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.
lust avarice-greed wealth
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
eye afar neglect
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
sex science black
The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.
strong honor obligation
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
land four messengers
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.
doe firsts impossible
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?
common consideration share
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.