Pliny the Elder Quotes
Home is where the heart is.
Fortune favours the brave…
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
In wine, there's truth.
No mortal is wise all the times.
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she [Nature] abandon to cries and lamentations.
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
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!
