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. Wikipedia
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
„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
„When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VIII, sec. 103.
Naturalis Historia
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„It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 1.
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
„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
„Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VIII, sec. 126.
Naturalis Historia
„Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 2.
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
„The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.“
— Pliny the Elder, книга Natural History
Book VII, sec. 8.
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
„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
