Pliny the Younger quotes - page 2

Honour is to you and me as strong an obligation, as necessity to others. (Pliny the Younger)
Those who are actuated by the desire of fame and glory are amazingly gratified by approbation and praise, even though it comes from their inferiors. View quote
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If you compute the years in which all this has happened, it is but a little while; if you number the vicissitudes, it seems an age. View quote
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A man must rate public and permanent, above private and fleeting advantages and study how to render his benefaction most useful, rather than how he may bestow it with least expense. View quote
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For there is a certain luxury in grief; especially when we pour out our sorrows in the bosom of a friend, who will approve, or, at least, pardon our tears. View quote
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There is little difference between expecting misfortune and undergoing it; except that 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. View quote
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There is certainly no truth in the popular belief, that a man's will is the mirror of his character. View quote
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For the malicious, is not, I trust, the only judicious reader. View quote
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The happier time, the quicker it passes. View quote
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Informations without the accuser's name subscribed must not be admitted in evidence against anyone, as it is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and by no means agreeable to the spirit of the age. View quote
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However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. (Pliny the Younger)
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. View quote
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To name the man is to say all! View quote
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How much does the fame of human actions depend upon the station of those who perform them! View quote
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Character lies more concealed, and out of the reach of common observation. View quote
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He died full of years and of glory. View quote
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For my part, I regard every death as cruel and premature, that removes one who is preparing some immortal work. View quote
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Such is the disposition of mankind, if they cannot blast an action, they will censure the parade of it; and whether you do what does not deserve to be taken notice of, or take notice yourself of what does, either way you incur reproach. View quote
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Generosity, when once she is set forward, knows not how to stop her progress; as her beauty is of that order which grows the more engaging upon nearer acquaintance. View quote
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Let us strive then, while Life is ours, to secure that Death may find we have left little or nothing he can destroy. View quote
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It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and repose; since I have known in fine, that indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing, and being nothing. (Pliny the Younger)
Prosperity proves men to be fortunate, while it is adversity which makes them great. View quote
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It is the usual though inequitable method of the world, to pronounce an action to be either right or wrong, as it is attended with good or ill success. View quote
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Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck. View quote
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They will by this means receive their education where they receive their birth, and be accustomed from their infancy to inhabit and affect their native soil. View quote
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