Quotations
Some of Pliny's most famous adages include:
- Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
- Because of a curious disease of the human mind, it pleases us to enshrine in history records of bloodshed and slaughter, so that those ignorant of the facts of the world may become acquainted with the crimes of mankind.
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)