Pliny the Elder

"The best plan is to profit from the folly of others."

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the luxuries and conceits of life that we laboriously struggle."

"In comparing various authors with one another, he may be said to have read the most who has gotten the most benefit from his reading."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"How poor are they that have not patience!"

"A single human being is but a small thing in the face of the universe, yet the ideas of individual humans have proved to be the greatest power on the earth."

"It is a silly thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the account of the matters of which the prologue was made."

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

"Life is long if you know how to use it."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"The human mind is prone to take for granted the excellence of that which it has long been familiar."

"Moderation has never appealed to me."

"Nowhere is it written that life should be easy."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"We are more intelligent than the animals, but no more virtuous."

"It is a mistake to suppose that the truest science is always the plainest and most agreeable."

"There is always something new out of Africa."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"Man is the only creature that eats when not hungry and drinks when not thirsty."

"Obedience is the foundation of all virtue."

"The observation of nature is the beginning of all science."

"A man may study himself too much and exercise himself too little."

"The human being is the only animal that laughs."

"Truth is the daughter of time."

"The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied by learning."

"Nothing is impossible for those who have prepared their hearts."

"Peace is produced by balanced power."

"Fortune is the companion of the bold."

"In every concealment there is also a disclosure."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."