Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. - Pliny The Younger
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
- Pliny The Younger
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment. - Pliny The Younger
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity. - Pliny The Younger
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise. - Pliny The Younger
It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. - Pliny The Younger
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
The happier time, the quicker it passes - Pliny The Younger
The happier time, the quicker it passes
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work. - Pliny The Younger
Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. - Pliny The Younger
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death. - Pliny The Younger
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
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