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 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 Image
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 Image
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image