163 Quotes by Pliny the Elder

The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

Truth comes out in wine.

Human nature craves novelty.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

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.