Pliny the Elder Quotes about Adversity

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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.

Failure, Adversity, Darkness

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.

Courage, Grief, Adversity

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

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

Adversity, Men, Misfortunes

"Complete Works of Pliny the Elder".