Pliny the Younger Quotes

Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit.

Neque enim minus apud nos honestas quam apud alios necessitas valet.

Quamlibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt quod negatum est.

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

To all this, his illustrious mind reflects the noblest ornament; he places no part of his happiness in ostentation, but refers the whole of it to conscience; and seeks the reward of a virtuous action, not in the applauses of the world, but in the action itself.

Si computes annos, exiguum tempus, si vices rerum, aevum putes.

There is certainly no truth in the popular belief, that a man's will is the mirror of his character.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. ... We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.

Oblige people never so often, and, if you deny them on a single point, they remember nothing but that refusal.

Falsum est nimirum quod creditur vulgo, testamenta hominum speculum esse morum.

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

Generosity, when once she is set forward, knows not how to stop her progress; as her beauty is of that order which grows the more engaging upon nearer acquaintance.

Honour is to you and me as strong an obligation, as necessity to others.

Plenus annis abit, plenus honoribus.

For there is a certain luxury in grief; especially when we pour out our sorrows in the bosom of a friend, who will approve, or, at least, pardon our tears.