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Pliny The Elder Quotes

«Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.»
«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!»
«The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.»
«With a grain of salt.»
«From the end spring new beginnings.»
«The happier the moment the shorter.»
«Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.»
«The brain is the citadel of sense perception.»
«No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.»
«There is always something new out of Africa.»