Pliny the Elder Quotes

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

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.

Home is where the heart is.

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

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

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

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

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

In wine, there's truth.

It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.

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

From the end spring new beginnings.

Better do nothing than do ill.

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

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

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.

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

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?

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

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

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

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.

No one is wise at all times.