“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
— Pliny the Elder, book Natural History
Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia
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