Occupation: Author Birth: 61 Death: 112
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people..
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 ac….
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..
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….
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment..
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing..
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity..
The happier time, the quicker it passes.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head..
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death..
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions..
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work..
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise..
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it..
The living voice is that which sways the soul..
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'..
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt..
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible..
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal..
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied..