PTPliny The Younger

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Pliny The Younger

Life dates: 61 AD — 105 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 83 AD

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

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02c. 83 AD

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.

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03c. 83 AD

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

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04c. 83 AD

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

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05c. 83 AD

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

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06c. 83 AD

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

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07c. 83 AD

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

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08c. 83 AD

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

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09c. 83 AD

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. . . . We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.

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10c. 83 AD

His only fault is that he has no fault.

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11c. 83 AD

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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12c. 83 AD

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

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13c. 83 AD

Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.

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14c. 83 AD

The longest day is soon ended.

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15c. 83 AD

Poets have a license to lie.

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