Quote: In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: The only certainty is that nothing is certain. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Home is where the heart is. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: The happier the moment the shorter. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: There is always something new out of Africa. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: 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 Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Truth comes out in wine. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: The happier the moment the shorter. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]
Quote: The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it. [Pliny The Elder Pliny The Elder]