Pliny Quotes
![Pliny Quotes: "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."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations961/The-most-disgraceful-cause-of-the-scarcity-961405.jpg)
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.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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.
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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.
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
