Плиний Старший цитаты
Плиний Старший
Дата рождения: 23 н.э.
Дата смерти: 24. Август 79 н.э.
Другие имена: Starší Plinius, Plinio il Vecchio
Пли́ний Ста́рший — древнеримский писатель-эрудит.
Наиболее известен как автор «Естественной истории» — крупнейшего энциклопедического сочинения античности; другие его сочинения не дошли до наших дней. Приходился дядей Гаю Плинию Цецилию Секунду, известному как Плиний Младший .
Плиний служил в армии на северной границе Римской империи, а после возвращения в Рим занялся литературной деятельностью. После прихода к власти императора Веспасиана, с сыном которого Титом он служил, был призван на государственную службу. В 70-е годы Плиний исполнял обязанности наместника в провинциях и командовал флотом в Неаполитанском заливе. В 77 или 78 году издал «Естественную историю», посвятив её Титу. Погиб в результате извержения Везувия.
Цитаты Плиний Старший
„Море! Ты истинная таинственная святыня муз. Сколько ты рассказываешь, сколько заставляешь воображать!“
Источник: Каланов Н.А. Афоризмы и цитаты о море и моряках. — М.: Моркнига, 2018, с. 161, ISBN 978-5-903080-23-6
„Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 4.
Naturalis Historia
„Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XXVIII, sec. 23.
Naturalis Historia
„The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XVIII, sec. 31.
Naturalis Historia
„Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XVIII, sec. 44.
Naturalis Historia
„With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
„It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XIV, sec. 141.
Naturalis Historia
„It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,—a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms…. Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, —a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XXXV, sec. 84.
Naturalis Historia
„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 eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book II, sec. 1.
Naturalis Historia
„It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book XVIII, sec. 44.
Naturalis Historia
„Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 6.
Naturalis Historia
„It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book II, sec. 20.
Naturalis Historia
„To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 2.
Naturalis Historia
„Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book II, sec. 234.
Naturalis Historia
