Elders Quotes by Pliny the Younger

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

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I…

— Pliny the Younger

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

— Pliny the Younger

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

— Pliny the Younger

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

— Pliny the Younger

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

— Pliny the Younger

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

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our…

— Pliny the Younger

“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.”

— Pliny the Younger

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

“nulla dies sine linea.”

— Pliny the Younger

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as…

— Pliny the Younger