“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

Pliny the Elder

“In wine, there's truth.”

Pliny the Elder

“In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.”

Pliny the Elder

“The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at ...”

Pliny the Elder

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certain—that nothing...”

Pliny the Elder