Pliny the Younger

Books by Pliny the Younger

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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.
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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.
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Since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
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The erection of a monument is superfluous; our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
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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.
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Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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