Pliny the Elder quotes

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

" In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. " # Certainty

" Home is where the heart is. " # Home # Freedom # Power

" The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. " # Planning

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

" It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. " # Reputation # Character # Shame

" Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. " # Adversity # Fortune # Prosperity

" 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! " # Birth # Love # Books - Reading

" There is always something new out of Africa. " # Nations

" This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man. " # Arrogance