Pliny the Younger

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

— Pliny the Younger

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

— Pliny the Younger

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

— Pliny the Younger

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

— Pliny the Younger

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

— Pliny the Younger

“Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself and a few more of us, whilst those placed before the rest of…

— Pliny the Younger

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

— Pliny the Younger

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by…

— Pliny the Younger

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

— Pliny the Younger

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

— Pliny the Younger

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

— Pliny the Younger

“Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable…

— Pliny the Younger

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

— Pliny the Younger

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of…

— Pliny the Younger

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

— Pliny the Younger