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> [Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/too-much-polishing-weakens-rather-than-improves-a-work/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

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> [Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/unfinished-paintings-are-more-admired-than-the-finished-because-the/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

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## Other authors on Finishing

## More 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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/it-is-difficult-to-retain-what-you-may-have-learned-unless-you-should/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/perhaps-you-will-ask-whether-i-can-raise-these-three-millions-without/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/too-much-polishing-weakens-rather-than-improves-a-work/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/never-do-a-thing-concerning-the-rectitude-of-which-you-are-in-doubt/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/they-enhance-the-value-of-their-favors-by-the-words-with-which-they/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/everyone-must-be-given-something-he-can-grasp-and-recognize-as-his/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/there-is-no-book-so-bad-that-it-is-not-profitable-in-some-part-nullus/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/objects-which-are-usually-the-motives-of-our-travels-by-land-and-by/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [ “\[Pliny the Elder\] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/pliny-the-elder-used-to-say-that-no-book-was-so-bad-but-some-good/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/literature-is-both-my-joy-and-my-comfort-it-can-add-to-every/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [“nulla dies sine linea.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/nulla-dies-sine-linea/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/let-us-strive-the-more-earnestly-therefore-to-lengthen-out-our-span/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [“The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/the-smallest-evil-if-neglected-will-reach-the-greatest-proportions/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/glory-ought-to-be-the-consequence-not-the-motive-of-our-actions-and/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

> [The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-younger/the-highest-of-characters-is-his-who-is-as-ready-to-pardon-the-moral/)

[Pliny the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-younger/)

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