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Pliny the Elder Quotes


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.
Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD), 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. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:

Here are some famous quotes by Pliny the Elder.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

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