Occupation: Author Birth: 23 Death: August 25, 79
War should neither be feared nor provoked..
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb..
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat..
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read..
The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on ….
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle..
From the end spring new beginnings..
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference ….
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding..
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is sh….
Hope is a working-man's dream..
Many dishes bring many diseases..
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia fir….
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies..
The brain is the citadel of sense perception..
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the mid….
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 citad….
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy..
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it..
Better do nothing than do ill..
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep..