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Pliny the Younger (61-112 AD) was a prominent Roman author and politician during the time of the Roman Empire. Known for his epistolary style, his works provide valuable insights into Roman society, politics, and culture during his time.

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“Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.”

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Author:Pliny the Younger

“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.”

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Book:The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks

Source: The letters of Pliny the consul:: with occasional remarks