dots-menu
×

Home  »  Familiar Quotations  »  8720 Pliny the Elder AD 23-AD 79 John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8720 Pliny the Elder AD 23-AD 79 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8720
AUTHOR:Pliny the Elder (A.D. c. 23–A.D. 79)
QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Natural History. Book ii. Sect. 1.