Pliny the Younger quotes
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“The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.”
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“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1796). “The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks”, p.20
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“However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.”
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“It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas”
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“And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : "Epistles", Book IV. 22 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 196), 1922.
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“Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.”
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“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 YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
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“The happier time, the quicker it passes”
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“Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.”
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“In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : "Epistles" by Pliny the Younger, Book I. 20,
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“There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit”
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“It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (the Younger.) (1909). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age”
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“Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.”
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“That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”
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“Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1805). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul”, p.51
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“Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.”
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“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 YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger.) (18??). “The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest”
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“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 YoungerSource : "Epistulae". Book by Pliny the Younger, III. 4,
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger) (1807). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks”, p.195
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“Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.”
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“There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.”
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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.”
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“Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.”
-- Pliny the YoungerSource : Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
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