Great Throughts Treasury
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Pliny the Younger, full name Casus Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo NULL
Roman Statesman, Letter Writer, Lawyer, Author and Magistrate of Ancient Rome
"The happier the time, the quicker it passes."
"There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part."
"The living voice is that which sways the soul."
"The longest day soon comes to an end."
"The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince."
"They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied."
"Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work. "
"Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. "
"When a man is laboring under the pain of any distemper, it is then that he recollects there are gods, and that he himself is but a man; no mortal is then the object of his envy, his admiration, or his contempt, and having no malice to gratify, the tales of slander excite not his attention."