Pliny the Younger Quotes
b. 113
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, an author and a natural philosopher of Ancient Rome.
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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.
He has no fault except that he has no fault.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
This expression of ours, "Father of a family."
The expense of a monument is superfluous; my memory will endure if my actions deserve it.
We should read much, we should not read many books.
Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.
Prosperity proves men to be fortunate, while it is adversity which makes them great.
Individuals indeed may deceive and be deceived; but no one has ever deceived all men, nor have all men ever deceived any one.
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.
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.
The happier the time, the quicker it passes.
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.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
Nevertheless it is allowed to poets to lie. (Poetical license).
A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of our feelings.
Our inquisitive disposition is excited by having its gratification deferred.
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.
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.
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.