Quotes from Pliny the Elder

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

The happier the moment the shorter.

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

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

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

In wine, there's truth.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

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.

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

In vino veritas

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Sutor, Ne Ultra Crepidam

Harapan adalah tiang yang menyangga dunia.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

In vino veritas ("In wine, truth")