Pliny the Elder Quotes

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• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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  Dream, Hope, Men

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• 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.

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  Failure, Adversity, Darkness

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• In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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  Matter, Uncertain, Certainty

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• Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

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  Doe, Firsts, Impossible

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.393, Delphi Classics

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• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

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  Marriage, Education, Goal

  "The Letters of Pliny the Younger". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book II, Letter 15), 1751.

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• Nothing is so unequal as equality.

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  Equality

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• From the end spring new beginnings.

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  Spring, New Beginnings, Ends

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• Home is where the heart is.

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  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

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• 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.

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  Courage, Grief, Adversity

  "Letters, vol. 2". Book by Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth and Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson, Book VIII, Letter 17, 6, 1935.

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• In wine, there's truth.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wine

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

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  Found, Smallest, Creatures

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1997). “Natural History: Books 8-11”, Loeb Classical Library

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• There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

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  Latin, Evil, Latin Proverb

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• Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

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  Men, Names, Conscience

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• Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

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  Hands, Practice, Overcoming

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• There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

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  Book, Can Not

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• Better do nothing than do ill.

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  Ill

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

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  Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

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• How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

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  Impossible, Has Beens

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• Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

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  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

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  Adversity, Men, Misfortunes

  "Complete Works of Pliny the Elder".

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• 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.

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  Men, Challenges, Audacity

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

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• Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

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  Advice, Way, Secure

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.853, Delphi Classics

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• No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Men, Shining

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• There is always something new out of Africa.

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  Something New

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• When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

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  Fall, Desert, Building

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 8, ch. 103

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