Pliny the Elder Quotes
"Truth comes out in wine."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Truth, Wine)
"From the end spring new beginnings."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Beginnings, End, Spring)
"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Charm, Possession, Pursuit)
"There is always something new out of Africa."
- Pliny the Elder
"Home is where the heart is."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Home, Heart)
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
- Pliny The Elder
(Related: Certainty, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Wealth, Lust, Mankind)
"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Darkness, Measure)
"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Folly, Profit)
"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
(Related: Work, Nature, Challenge, Man)
"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
(Related: Fear, Grief, Limits, May)
"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Reputation)
"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Word, Writers)
"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Dream, Hope, Man, Waking, World)
"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."
- Pliny the Elder
(Related: Man, Moments)