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Pliny The Younger quotes: An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

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

Pliny The Younger quotes: However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

Pliny The Younger quotes: The happier time, the quicker it passes

The happier time, the quicker it passes

Pliny The Younger quotes: Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

Pliny The Younger quotes: In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Pliny The Younger quotes: The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.

The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.

Pliny The Younger quotes: It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

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 quotes: [Pliny the Elder] used to say that no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

[Pliny the Elder] used to say that no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know.

Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...

Pliny The Younger quotes: Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Pliny The Younger quotes: There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

Pliny The Younger quotes: And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Pliny The Younger quotes: There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

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 quotes: That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Pliny The Younger quotes: That those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.

That those supports may be shaken, and collapse, for the popularity of evil men is as fickle as the men themselves.

Pliny The Younger quotes: Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Pliny The Younger quotes: You summon us, we follow. You order us to be free and so we will be.

You summon us, we follow. You order us to be free and so we will be.

Pliny The Younger quotes: The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Pliny The Younger quotes: It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Pliny The Younger quotes: They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.