01c. 83 ADModestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
02c. 83 ADThere is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,—that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That 's right. I am quite well.Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
03c. 83 ADNever do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
05c. 83 ADAn object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
06c. 83 ADHe [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
09c. 83 ADObjects 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 we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
11c. 83 ADSo we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
12c. 83 ADNullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.Pliny The Younger / quote ↗
