Quotes by Pliny the Elder

“In wine, there's truth.”

“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”

“Out of Africa, there is always something new.”

“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.”

“Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”

“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.”

“Truth comes out in wine.”

“From the end spring new beginnings.”

“It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.”

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”

“In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)”

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

“The brain is the citadel of sense perception.”

“Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, an...”

“Fortes Fortuna iuvat.”

“From the days of Father Bacchus to Alexander the Great, their kings are reckoned at 154, whose reigns extend over 6451 years and 3 months.”

“In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.”

“The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject ...”

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certain—that noth...”

“It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.”