Pliny the Elder Quotes

How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!

Pliny the Elder

• Life
• Happy
• Earth
• Desire
• Innocent

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• How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Earth