The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Liter...
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“It is not true that the world is too tired and exhausted to produce anything worth praising.”
Source: The Letters of the Younger Pliny; Literally Translated by John Delaware Lewis
Source: [Epistolae Plinii ad Trajanum imperatorem hujusque ad illum responsa]: inest Historia critica Epistolarum Plinii et Trajani usque ad a. 1552 scripsit J.O. Orellius. 1838 [Leather Bound]
“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted”
Source: The Letters Of Pliny, The Younger: With Observations On Each Letter
Source: The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Classic Reprint): Literally Translated
“Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know.”
Source: The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Source: The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest
Source: The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks
“There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.”
Source: Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny
“Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.”
Source: The Letters of Pliny the Consul
“The living voice is that which sways the soul.”
Source: The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest
“That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.”
Source: The Letters of Pliny the Younger: Literally Translated with Notes, Melmoth's Translation, Revised by Bosanquest
“It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age
“They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.”
“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.”
Source: The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks
“Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.”
Source: Letters and Panegyricus
“Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.”
“Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.”
Source: Letters, and Panegyricus: Letters, Books I-VII
“Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.”
“In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.”
“The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.”