Quotes from Pliny the Younger

Não ignoro que muitos outros não olham estas espécies de desgraças senão como uma simples perda de um bem, e que assim pensando eles se julgam grandes homens e homens sábios. De minha parte, não sei se são tão grandes e tão sábios como o imaginam, mas sei bem que não são homens.

that it is better to have no work to do than to work at nothing.

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

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

Poets have a license to lie.

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

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.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.