Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Pliny the Younger

« All quotes from this author
 

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
--
Book VIII, letter 9, 3.

 
Pliny the Younger

» Pliny the Younger - all quotes »



Tags: Pliny the Younger Quotes, Authors starting by P


Similar quotes

 

Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.

 
James Branch Cabell
 

You find something agreeable in almost everyone. I am put off by anything not wholly agreeable.

 
Diana (Lady Diana Manners) Cooper
 

Although the future exists, you can avoid or alter it by changing you present condition. By the quality of our condition, we attract or are attracted to particular types of experiences. If our condition is good we do not attract or need to experience certain events that would otherwise be necessary to balance our lives. We exert control over and have responsibility for our future because it is determined by our present condition.

 
Michio Kushi
 

In indolent vacuity of thought.

 
William Cowper
 

Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

 
Claude Bernard
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact