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Pliny The Younger

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• “Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs.”

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• “Meminimus quanto maiore animo honestatis fructus in conscientia quam in fama reponatur. Sequi enim gloria, non appeti debet.”

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• “Homines enim cum rem destruere non possunt, iactationem eius incessunt. Ita si silenda feceris, factum ipsum, si laudanda non sileas, ipse culparis.”

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• “There 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.”

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• “I contemplate the sort of friend, the sort of man I am now without. He completed his sixty-seventh year, a reasonable age for the sturdiest of us; I acknowledge that. He escaped from an interminable illness; I acknowledge that. He died with his dear ones surviving him, and at a time of prosperity for the state, which was dearer to him than all else; that too I acknowledge. Yet I lament his death as though he were young and in glowing health. I lament it—you can consider me a weakling in this—on my own account, for I have lost the witness, guardian and teacher of my life.”

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• “Quod dubites, ne feceris.”

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• “Usus, magister egregius.”

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• “Quam peritus ille et privati iuris et publici! quantum rerum, quantum exemplorum, quantum antiquitatis tenet! Nihil est quod discere velis quod ille docere non possit; mihi certe quotiens aliquid abditum quaero, ille thesaurus est.”

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  Recorded in: Letter 22, 2. On Titius Aristo. Reported in J. W. Jones, A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which Occur in Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England', &c. (Philadelphia, PA: T.…

• “Ornat haec magnitudo animi, quae nihil ad ostentationem, omnia ad conscientiam refert recteque facti non ex populi sermone mercedem, sed ex facto petit.”

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• “Plenus annis abit, plenus honoribus.”

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• “The living voice is that which sways the soul.”

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• “Numerantur enim sententiae, non ponderantur; nec aliud in publico consilio potest fieri, in quo nihil est tam inaequale quam aequalitas ipsa.”

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• “Rarum id quidem nihil enim aeque gratum est adeptis quam concupiscentibus.”

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• “Vita hominum altos recessus magnasque latebras habet.”

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• “Quamlibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc solum meminerunt quod negatum est.”

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• “Dicere etiam solebat nullum esse librum tam malum ut non aliqua parte prodesset..”

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• “Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.”

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• “Neque enim minus apud nos honestas quam apud alios necessitas valet.”

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• “Omnes enim, qui gloria famaque ducuntur, mirum in modum assensio et laus a minoribus etiam profecta delectat.”

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• “Educentur hic qui hic nascuntur, statimque ab infantia natale solum amare frequentare consuescant.”

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• “By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night.”

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• “Dixi omnia cum hominem nominavi.”

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• “Utque in corporibus sic in imperio gravissimus est morbus, qui a capite diffunditur.”

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• “Si computes annos, exiguum tempus, si vices rerum, aevum putes.”

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• “Mihi autem videtur acerba semper et immatura mors eorum, qui immortale aliquid parant.”

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• “Proinde, dum suppetit vita, enitamur ut mors quam paucissima quae abolere possit inveniat.”

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• “Est omnino iniquum, sed usu receptum, quod honesta consilia vel turpia, prout male aut prospere cedunt, ita vel probantur vel reprehenduntur.”

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• “Nescit enim semel incitata liberalitas stare, cuius pulchritudinem usus ipse commendat.”

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• “O morte ipsa mortis tempus indignius!”

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• “This expression of ours, "Father of a family.”

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• “Poetis mentiri licet.”

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• “Quam multum interest quid a quoque fiat!”

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• “Multum legendum esse, non multa.”

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• “In numero ipso est quoddam magnum collatumque consilium, quibusque singulis iudicii parum, omnibus plurimum.”

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• “Oportet privatis utilitatibus publicas, mortalibus aeternas anteferre, multoque diligentius muneri suo consulere quam facultatibus.”

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• “Everything was done.”

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• “Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit.”

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• “Olim nescio quid sit otium quid quies, quid denique illud iners quidem, iucundum tamen nihil agere nihil esse.”

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• “Est enim quaedam etiam dolendi voluptas, praesertim si in amici sinu defleas, apud quem lacrimis tuis vel laus sit parata vel venia.”

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• “Parvolum differt, patiaris adversa an exspectes; nisi quod tamen est dolendi modus, non est timendi. Doleas enim quantum scias accidisse, timeas quantum possit accidere.”

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• “Falsum est nimirum quod creditur vulgo, testamenta hominum speculum esse morum.”

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• “Ad quae noscenda iter ingredi, transmittere mare solemus, ea sub oculis posita neglegimu. [...] Differimus tamquam saepe visuri, quod datur videre quotiens velis cernere.”

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• “Impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostri durabit, si vita meruimus.”

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• “Neque enim soli iudicant qui maligne legunt.”

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• “Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.”

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• “Ut satius unum aliquid insigniter facere quam plura mediocriter, ita plurima mediocriter, si non possis unum aliquid insigniter.”

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• “Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur.”

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• “Quamquam longissimus, dies cito conditur.”

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• “Sine auctore vero propositi libelli nullo crimine locum habere debent. Nam et pessimi exempli nec nostri saeculi est.”

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• “Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.”

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