Occupation: Author Birth: 61 Death: 112
Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some mo….
It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas.
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 canno….
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautiou….
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms..
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea..
Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things..
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible..
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'..
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….
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied..
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal..
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..
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..