Pliny the Elder Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  Pliny the Elder

  Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

• The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is shown first of all by the name of 'orb' which is bestowed upon it by the general consent of mankind. ...Our eyesight also confirms this belief, because the firmament presents the aspect of a concave hemisphere equidistant in every direction, which would be impossible in the case of any other figure."

  Pliny the Elder

  Names, Perfect, Doubt

• Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

  Pliny the Elder

  Vanity, Should Have, Sovereign

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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