Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
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failure adversity darkness
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.
dream hope men
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
certainty
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
mother men enemy
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
animal men tears
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
light sea water
And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.
decision decision-making certainty
The only certainty is uncertainty