Pliny the Elder Quotes

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• As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

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  Exercise, Land, Mind

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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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• Home is where the heart is.

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  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

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

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  Matter, Uncertain, Certainty

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• Nothing is so unequal as equality.

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  Equality

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• Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  Natural History II

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• Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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  Envy, Inferiority, Conscious

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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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• The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

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  Business, Men, Mind

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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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• From the end spring new beginnings.

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  Spring, New Beginnings, Ends

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• Better do nothing than do ill.

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  Ill

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• In wine, there's truth.

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  Wine

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

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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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• The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

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  Profit, Folly, Plans

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• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

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  Writing, Civilization, Glory

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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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• Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

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  Wine, Insanity, Reason

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• It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

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  Opportunity, Agriculture, Too Late

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1856). “The Natural History of Pliny”, p.18

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• Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

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  Latin, Lines, Dies

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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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• Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

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  Men, Training, Taught

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 7, ch. 4

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• The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

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  Wine, Kind, Drink

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