Famous quotes by Pliny The Elder:

"There is always something new out of Africa."

"No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments."

"The brain is the citadel of sense perception."

"Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible."

"The happier the moment the shorter."

"From the end spring new beginnings."

"With a grain of salt."

"The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."

"Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!"

"Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others."

"Home is where the heart is."

"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."

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

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"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."

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

"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."

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• The Elder - Insomnium
• The Elder - Threnody
• The Elder - Drifter

In the arms of rimed soil, lies the autumns last withered leaf
Land now bare and naed, awaits it's snowy sheet
And as the light still lingers, painting scarlet this barren scene
An old man sings his song of melancholy and relinquish
I'm a whirl deep in dark waters,
A stare in the shades of fir-trees
I'm riding above with north wind,
Herding the black clouds of rain
Mine is the kingdom,
Far from the moon to the sun
I am the elder,
Standing forever as one
And in that sudden moment, when everything's turned to still,
He abruptly breaks the silence, becomes one with longing
And singing ever stronger, nature joins as one with him

See life pass you by
Your last hour growing nearer
Enjoyed all pleasures of life
trying to latch on
Desperately trying
trying to latch on
The elder want to grasp
The elder want to know
One foot in the grave
Pass on your wisdom
Made the choices and decisions
Desperately trying to latch on
See the world pass you by
Everything seems to fast
The elder want to grasp

High on the hill he was standing there,
The guardian of his tribe
The clans they looked up to him
With risen hands he started to speak
All life is equal, therefore we live together
With all living things
But then came intruders, sick with greed
And hungry for power
He's the Lord of his people
He's the Lord of his tribe
He's the Lord of this land
He's the Lord of this paradise
He's the Lord of his people
He's the Lord of this tribe
Over thousands of years
He led his clans through this paradise
This race makes laws that the rich can break
But not the poor
Giving to the rich and stealing from those
Who want for more
They rape the earth as if it was their own
They stripped it bare right to the bone
Let's search for a place to live