Pliny the Younger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Memories #Endure #Recollection
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Our Actions #Glory #Motive
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Forget Everything #Done #May
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
-- Pliny the Younger

#Learning #Practice #May
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Men #Body #Disease
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Perception #Favors #Discernment
So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Excuse #Produce #Reader
The happier time, the quicker it passes
-- Pliny the Younger

#Happier Times
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Finishing #Too Much
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Speech #Pleading #Cases
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
-- Pliny the Younger

#Book #Mali #Profitable
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Exercise #Mind #Wonderful
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Artist #Finishing #Painting
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Doing Nothing #Conditions
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Doubt #Rectitude
Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Taught #Excellent #Masters
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Generosity #Lovely #Form
For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Men #Denial #Favors
Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Lying #Fall #Mean
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Character #Errors #Faults
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Art #Skills #Perfection
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
-- Pliny the Younger

#People #Honor #Obligation
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Afraid Of Death
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Lying #Eye #Sea
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
-- Pliny the Younger

#Writing #Joy #Sorrow

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