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.

  Pliny the Elder

  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.

  Pliny the Elder

  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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• Nothing is so unequal as equality.

  Pliny the Elder

  Equality

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• Home is where the heart is.

  Pliny the Elder

  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

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

  Pliny the Elder

  Marriage, Education, Goal

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

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• No one is wise at all times.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wise, Wisdom, All Time

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Historia Naturalis, VII. 41. 2, 1922.

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• Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

  Pliny the Elder

  Envy, Inferiority, Conscious

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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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• From the end spring new beginnings.

  Pliny the Elder

  Spring, New Beginnings, Ends

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

  Pliny the Elder

  Found, Smallest, Creatures

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

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• The only certainty is uncertainty

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  Decision, Decision Making, Certainty

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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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• Better do nothing than do ill.

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  Ill

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

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  Happiness, True Happiness, Deserving

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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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• 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.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Training, Taught

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 7, ch. 4

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• No book so bad but some part may be of use.

  Pliny the Elder

  Book, Use, May

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