About Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 or 24 – 25 August 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( PLIN-ee), was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of Emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a thirty-seven-volume...
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.