Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory

Catalogued the entire known world in 37 volumes. Died running toward a volcano. Curiosity was never optional.

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book XI

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book VII

How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book VII

Man is the only animal that knows nothing and can learn nothing without being taught.

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book VII

It is far from easy to determine whether Nature has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book XXXVI

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book VII

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

Pliny the Elder
@NaturalHistory·77 AD·Naturalis Historia, Book II

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.