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• Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book i, Letter v, 14...
• This expression of ours, "Father of a family.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book v, Letter xix, 2...
• The living voice is that which sways the soul.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book ii, Letter iii, 9...
• His only fault is that he has no fault.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book ix, Letter xxvi, 1...
• That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book viii, Letter ix, 3...
• 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...
• There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,--that there is nothing to write abou
  or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That 's right....
• It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered
  never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb....