Quotes by Pliny the Younger
3 quotes by Pliny the Younger (died 113), taken from Letters. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Letters
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“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.”
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“Since long life is denied us, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least LIVED.”
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“In young men, indeed, a little confusion and disarrangement is all well enough: but in age, when business is unseasonable, and ambition indecent, all should be composed and uniform.”