The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one. Pliny the Younger More Quotes by Pliny the Younger More Quotes From Pliny the Younger Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work. Pliny the Younger finishingtoo-much So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard. Pliny the Younger produceexcusereader However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. Pliny the Younger forget-everythingdonemay It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas Pliny the Younger learningpracticemay And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. Pliny the Younger diseasebodymen There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit Pliny the Younger profitablemalibook The happier time, the quicker it passes Pliny the Younger happier-times The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. Pliny the Younger endurerecollectionmemories Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. Pliny the Younger our-actionsmotiveglory It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise. Pliny the Younger mindexercisewonderful Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment. Pliny the Younger discernmentfavorsperception That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. Pliny the Younger conditionsdoing-nothing Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. Pliny the Younger meanlyingfall Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. Pliny the Younger obligationhonorpeople 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. Pliny the Younger eyesealying For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial. Pliny the Younger denialfavorsmen It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any. Pliny the Younger skillsperfectionart In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity. Pliny the Younger pleadingcasesspeech Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. Pliny the Younger finishingpaintingartist Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. Pliny the Younger rectitudedoubt
