Frases de Plinio el Viejo
Plinio el Viejo
Fecha de nacimiento: 23 d.C.
Fecha de muerte: 24. Agosto 79 d.C.
Otros nombres: Starší Plinius, Plinio il Vecchio
Gayo Plinio Segundo , conocido como Plinio el Viejo , fue un escritor, naturalista y militar latino. Realizó estudios e investigaciones en fenómenos naturales, etnográficos y geográficos, recopilados en su obra Naturalis historia, siendo modelo enciclopédico de muchos conocimientos hasta mediados del siglo XVII cuando sus estudios fueron sustituidos por investigaciones basadas en el Método Científico y el Empirismo moderno. Sus obras fueron la base de muchos exploradores occidentales como Odorico de Pordenone, Marco Polo, Antonio Pigafetta, Cristóbal Colón y Fernando de Magallanes, así como del conquistador español Hernán Cortés, quienes hacían coincidir las descripciones geográficas y etnológicas de Plinio[1][2] con sus propios descubrimientos,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] incluyendo seres y regiones fantásticas de la mitología grecolatina.[10][11]
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Frases Plinio el Viejo
„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, libro Naturalis historia
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, libro Naturalis historia
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, libro Naturalis historia
Book XVIII, sec. 31.
Naturalis Historia
„Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book XVIII, sec. 44.
Naturalis Historia
„With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
„It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.“
— Pliny the Elder, libro Naturalis historia
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, libro Naturalis historia
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, libro Naturalis historia
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, libro Naturalis historia
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, libro Naturalis historia
Book VII, sec. 6.
Naturalis Historia
