Pliny The Elder (23-79) quotes

 

• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
• From the end spring new beginnings.
• Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
• Home is where the heart is.
• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
• In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain
• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
• truth comes out in wine.