The best Quotes by Pliny the Elder

The best Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 - AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and 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 encyclopedias.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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.
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.
Spencer Hastings in Pretty Little Liars - Season 1 Episode 1
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Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.
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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
I Corinthians - 13, 4-7
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May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
Fred Young in Blow
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And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope...
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The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.
Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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Please don't ask me to have hope. Hope hurts, and I don't want to hurt anymore.
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It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
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Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
The Architect in The Matrix - Reloaded
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In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
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While there's life there's hope.
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.
Pandora in God of War - III
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When do you throw in the tower? Admit that a lost cause is just that? There comes a point when it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up.
That's when the real work begins: to find hope, where there seems to be absolutely none at all.
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Hope is kind of like dominos. Once one falls - the rest follow.
Tokyo in Money Heist - Season 1 Episode 13
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The number of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.
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How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.
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Become unpopular first, or people want perceive you seriously.
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Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.
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The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.
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You waste time trying to get people to love you, you'll end up the most popular dead man in town.
Bronn in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 7
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Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
Albert Einstein - in einem Interview mit der New York Times, 1942
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were "cool" in their younger years.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
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I don't want to be liked by everyone.
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Knowledge is power, power is status and status means popular.
Eric Effiong in Sex Education - Season 1 Episode 2
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It is impossible to please all the world.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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You're never going to be truly successful if everyone likes you.
It doesn't matter who has the most friends or likes or followers. If you just have one or two great friends who will support you.
Stephanie Conway in Senior Year
No one truly notices me. I suppose that is what I like. When you're invisible, you have all the amus*ment you want without any of the expectations popularity brings. It frees you.
Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton - Season 2 Episode 1
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.
During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

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