Top 15 Pliny the Younger Quotes

Secunda felices, adversa magnos probent.

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

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.

Sine auctore vero propositi libelli nullo crimine locum habere debent. Nam et pessimi exempli nec nostri saeculi est.

The day, even when it is at the longest, is quickly spent.

Quamquam longissimus, dies cito conditur.

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

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

As it is far better to excel in any single art, than to arrive only at a mediocrity in several; so on the other hand, a moderate skill in several is to be preferred, where one cannot attain to excellency in any.

Ut satius unum aliquid insigniter facere quam plura mediocriter, ita plurima mediocriter, si non possis unum aliquid insigniter.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.

Neque enim soli iudicant qui maligne legunt.

Impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostri durabit, si vita meruimus.

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.