Zitate von Plinius d.J.

„Ruhm nämlich muss folgen, er darf nicht erstrebt werden.“

—  Plinius d.J.

„It is in the body politic, as in the natural, those disorders are most dangerous that flow from the head.“
Utque in corporibus sic in imperio gravissimus est morbus, qui a capite diffunditur.

—  Pliny the Younger

„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.“
Ad quae noscenda iter ingredi, transmittere mare solemus, ea sub oculis posita neglegimu. ... Differimus tamquam saepe visuri, quod datur videre quotiens velis cernere.

—  Pliny the Younger

„This expression of ours, "Father of a family."“

—  Pliny the Younger

„His only fault is that he has no fault.“
Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.

—  Pliny the Younger

„It is the usual though inequitable method of the world, to pronounce an action to be either right or wrong, as it is attended with good or ill success.“
Est omnino iniquum, sed usu receptum, quod honesta consilia vel turpia, prout male aut prospere cedunt, ita vel probantur vel reprehenduntur.

—  Pliny the Younger

„Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.“
Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.

—  Pliny the Younger

„There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,—that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.“

—  Pliny the Younger

„Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."“

—  Pliny the Younger

„We should read much, we should not read many books.“
Multum legendum esse, non multa.

—  Pliny the Younger

„Experience, that excellent master.“
Usus, magister egregius.

—  Pliny the Younger

„A man must rate public and permanent, above private and fleeting advantages and study how to render his benefaction most useful, rather than how he may bestow it with least expense.“
Oportet privatis utilitatibus publicas, mortalibus aeternas anteferre, multoque diligentius muneri suo consulere quam facultatibus.

—  Pliny the Younger

„They will by this means receive their education where they receive their birth, and be accustomed from their infancy to inhabit and affect their native soil.“
Educentur hic qui hic nascuntur, statimque ab infantia natale solum amare frequentare consuescant.

—  Pliny the Younger

„The truth is, the generality of mankind stand in awe of public opinion, while conscience is feared only by the few.“
Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.

—  Pliny the Younger

„I contemplate the sort of friend, the sort of man I am now without. He completed his sixty-seventh year, a reasonable age for the sturdiest of us; I acknowledge that. He escaped from an interminable illness; I acknowledge that. He died with his dear ones surviving him, and at a time of prosperity for the state, which was dearer to him than all else; that too I acknowledge. Yet I lament his death as though he were young and in glowing health. I lament it—you can consider me a weakling in this—on my own account, for I have lost the witness, guardian and teacher of my life.“

—  Pliny the Younger

„A certain large collective wisdom resides in a crowd, as such; and men whose individual judgement is defective are excellent judges when grouped together.“
In numero ipso est quoddam magnum collatumque consilium, quibusque singulis iudicii parum, omnibus plurimum.

—  Pliny the Younger

„For History ought not to depart from the truth, and the truth is all the praise that virtuous actions need.“

—  Pliny the Younger

„There is certainly no truth in the popular belief, that a man's will is the mirror of his character.“
Falsum est nimirum quod creditur vulgo, testamenta hominum speculum esse morum.

—  Pliny the Younger

„By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night.“

—  Pliny the Younger