The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Tag: Pliny the Elder
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
From the end spring new beginnings.
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
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.
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
There is always something new out of Africa.