His only fault is that he has no fault.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Perfection
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
Topics: Achieving, Living
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Worry, Anxiety, Fear
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
Topics: Focus, Concentration
It is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical exercise.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Health
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Study
He has no fault except that he has no fault.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Faults
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Honor
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Trials, Adversity
The longest day is soon ended.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Persistence
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- Martial Ancient Roman Latin Poet
- Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Roman Stoic Philosopher
- Terence Roman Comic Dramatist
- Persius Roman Poet
- Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato) Roman Statesman
- Pliny the Elder Roman Scholar
- Epictetus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Plutarch Greek Biographer
- Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca) Roman Rhetorician
- Petronius Roman Courtier
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