45 Quotes by pliny the younger

It is not true that the world is too tired and exhausted to produce anything worth praising.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

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 to produce something worth being written and heard.

Deus est mortali iuvare mortalem.

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

there may be greater glory in obedience where the desire to obey is less

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Peccant, qvia nihil peccant.

In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.