That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

- 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

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

- 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