Occupation: Author Birth: 23 Death: August 25, 79
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments..
Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon ano….
There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the….
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth..
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….
On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye..
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguis….
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be etern….
Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger….
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible..
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from fo….
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents..
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!.
We live by reposing trust in each other..
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 lav….
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity..
Man naturally yearns for novelty..
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man..
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man..
No one is wise at all times..
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our ….