“ An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
“ Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 4K
“ An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 67
“ And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 2.7K
“ And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 2.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.9K
“ However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 252
“ And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most to them. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
- 3K
- 1
- 2
- 3