That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
-- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD)
-- Letters, Book viii, Letter ix, 3
-- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD)
-- Letters, Book viii, Letter ix, 3
Related:
- His only fault is that he has no fault.
-- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD)
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Letters, Book ix, Letter xxvi,... - The living voice is that which sways the soul.
-- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD)
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Letters, Book ii, Letter iii,... - This expression of ours, "Father of a family."
-- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD)
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Letters, Book v, Letter xix,... - An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book ii... - Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book i,... - Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks
upon two legs."
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Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book i,... - 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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Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book iii... - There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then,
write and let me know just this,--that there is nothing... - 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...
