Pliny the Elder Quotes

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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.
• 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.
• In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
• No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
• 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…
• In wine, there's truth.
• True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
• The happier the moment the shorter.
• Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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