Pliny the Elder Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• 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 extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

  Pliny the Elder

  Miscarriage, Son, Thinking

• Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Doe, Naked

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1957). “Natural History: An Account by a Roman of what Romans Knew and Did and Valued”

• 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

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

• 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 is never found an enemy of man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mother, Men, Enemy

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