Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for...
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.