Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

- Pliny The Younger

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

- Pliny The Younger

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

- Pliny The Younger

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

- Pliny The Younger

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

- Pliny The Younger

The happier time, the quicker it passes

- Pliny The Younger

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

- Pliny The Younger

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

- Pliny The Younger

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

- Pliny The Younger