Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share
“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share
