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."