Best Quotes by Pliny the Elder (Top 10)
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In wine, there's truth.
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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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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Home is where the heart is.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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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.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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.
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No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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