Pliny the Elder: Quotes
Certainty
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Humans and Human Nature
Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught.
Humans and Human Nature
Nothing is more wretched or more proud than man.
Nature
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
Peoples and Places
There is always something new out of Africa.
Wine
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (In vino veritas.)
