Pliny the Younger Quotes

Usus, magister egregius.

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

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

Rarum id quidem nihil enim aeque gratum est adeptis quam concupiscentibus.

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.

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.

It is allowed to poets to lie.

The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.

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

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur.

Informations without the accuser's name subscribed must not be admitted in evidence against anyone, as it is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and by no means agreeable to the spirit of the age.

Quod dubites, ne feceris.

Vita hominum altos recessus magnasque latebras habet.

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