KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Pliny The Elder Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Pliny The Elder

Showing 1-10 of 25 Quotes by Pliny The Elder

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


From the end spring new beginnings.

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Truth comes out in wine.

~Pliny The Elder

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Pliny The Elder on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Helen Keller
C. S. Lewis
Tony Robbins
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Honore De Balzac Hillary Clinton Snoop Dogg Ralph Waldo Emerson Wayne Gretzky Abraham Maslow George Bernard Shaw Simon Sinek

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1588 - Thomas Hobbes

1856 - Booker T. Washington

1937 - Colin Powell

1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller

1827 - Joseph Lister

1834 - Frank Richard Stockton

1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne

1883 - Walter Huston

1900 - Spencer Tracy

1901 - Melvyn Douglas

Birthdays on April 5th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anniversary Attitude Chance Good Inspirational Motivational New Year's Technology