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• That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book viii, Letter ix, 3...
• His only fault is that he has no fault.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book ix, Letter xxvi, 1...
• The living voice is that which sways the soul.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book ii, Letter iii, 9...
• They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them
  and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time....
• An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book ii, Letter xv, 1...
• Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book i, Letter xviii, 5...
• The world, and whatever that be which we call the heave
  by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction....
• We change not from seeing the light;but feeling the heat.
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...