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Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
Born: 23
Died: 79
Life Man Nature Nothing Spring Word
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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
You Darkness Live Exact Reach Still Which Height Depth Aspire Measure Descend
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. Pliny the Elder
Grief Fear Apprehension Possibly Only Know None Limits May Whereas Happen Happened Grieve
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. Pliny the Elder
Good Lose Reputation Good Reputation More Shameful Generally Never Than Acquired Much
Truth comes out in wine. Pliny the Elder
Truth Wine Out
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
Wealth Lust Possess Totally Seems Rather Seized Than Avarice Them Mankind
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
Nature Man Winds More Inventions Unruly Sails Been His Than Department Ingenuity Sea Works Her
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent! Pliny the Elder
Signs Living Other Tremble Beneath Our Astonished Earth Though Asunder Out Parent Indignation Could Sacred Veins Feet Trace Occasionally Undermined Felt Than Any Should Expressions
There is always something new out of Africa. Pliny the Elder
Out Something Something New New Always Africa
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. Pliny the Elder
Wise Man Moreover Mortal Moments
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. Pliny the Elder
Work Nature Man Challenge Hath He Counterfeit Learned Audacity Bold Her
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
Word Latest Some Various Writers Another Without Making Discovered Authors Acknowledgment Former Works Comparing
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form! Pliny the Elder
Art Nature Man Challenge Drinking Become Pleasure Both Delighted Obscene He Takes Learned How His Subjects Cups Very Form Vice
The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish. Pliny the Elder
Good World Thought Men Power Beginning Believe Ought Immense All Things Divine Never Name Call Perish Another Without Covered Heaven Which Eternal Reason Compass Things
Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties. Pliny the Elder
Nature Spring Waters Out Some Miraculous Properties Also Greatest Fresh Close Pipes Wonders Forth Sea Among

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