Pliny the Younger Quotes

In numero ipso est quoddam magnum collatumque consilium, quibusque singulis iudicii parum, omnibus plurimum.

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.

Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.

For my part, I regard every death as cruel and premature, that removes one who is preparing some immortal work.

It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and repose; since I have known in fine, that indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing, and being nothing.

Homines enim cum rem destruere non possunt, iactationem eius incessunt. Ita si silenda feceris, factum ipsum, si laudanda non sileas, ipse culparis.

Oportet privatis utilitatibus publicas, mortalibus aeternas anteferre, multoque diligentius muneri suo consulere quam facultatibus.

Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."

Proinde, dum suppetit vita, enitamur ut mors quam paucissima quae abolere possit inveniat.

Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.

It is allowed to poets to lie.

To name the man is to say all!

A certain large collective wisdom resides in a crowd, as such; and men whose individual judgement is defective are excellent judges when grouped together.

Dicere etiam solebat nullum esse librum tam malum ut non aliqua parte prodesset..

Votes go by number, not weight; nor can it be otherwise in assemblies of this kind, where nothing is more unequal than that equality which prevails in them.