Pliny the Elder Quotes

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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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• 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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• Home is where the heart is.

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  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

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  Envy, Inferiority, Conscious

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• On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

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  Eye, Farming, Masters

  "Natural History".

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• The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

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  Men, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only certainty is uncertainty

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  Decision, Decision Making, Certainty

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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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• Better do nothing than do ill.

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  Ill

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

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  Happiness, True Happiness, Deserving

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• We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

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  Eye, Afar, Neglect

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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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