Pliny the Younger quotes

His only fault is that he has no fault. (Pliny the Younger)
The living voice is that which sways the soul. View quote
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The expense of a monument is superfluous; my memory will endure if my actions deserve it. View quote
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As it is far better to excel in any single art, than to arrive only at a mediocrity in several; so on the other hand, a moderate skill in several is to be preferred, where one cannot attain to excellency in any. View quote
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There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,-that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well. View quote
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He used to say that "no book was so bad but that some good might be got out of it." View quote
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. View quote
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By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night-no, more than night. View quote
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Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. View quote
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To all this, his illustrious mind reflects the noblest ornament; he places no part of his happiness in ostentation, but refers the whole of it to conscience; and seeks the reward of a virtuous action, not in the applauses of the world, but in the action itself. View quote
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The day, even when it is at the longest, is quickly spent. (Pliny the Younger)
Votes go by number, not weight; nor can it be otherwise in assemblies of this kind, where nothing is more unequal than that equality which prevails in them. View quote
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It is allowed to poets to lie. View quote
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More cruel than death itself, to die at that particular conjuncture! View quote
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Everything was done. View quote
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The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth. View quote
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It is in the body politic, as in the natural, those disorders are most dangerous that flow from the head. View quote
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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. View quote
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This expression of ours, "Father of a family." View quote
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Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs." View quote
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We should read much, we should not read many books. (Pliny the Younger)
I contemplate the sort of friend, the sort of man I am now without. He completed his sixty-seventh year, a reasonable age for the sturdiest of us; I acknowledge that. He escaped from an interminable illness; I acknowledge that. He died with his dear ones surviving him, and at a time of prosperity for the state, which was dearer to him than all else; that too I acknowledge. Yet I lament his death as though he were young and in glowing health. I lament it-you can consider me a weakling in this-on my own account, for I have lost the witness, guardian and teacher of my life. View quote
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I am sensible how much nobler it is to place the reward of virtue in the silent approbation of one's own breast than in the applause of the world. Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. View quote
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Experience, that excellent master. View quote
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Oblige people never so often, and, if you deny them on a single point, they remember nothing but that refusal. View quote
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