5 Quotes & Sayings By Pliny The Younger

Pliny the Younger was a Roman lawyer, naturalist, and poet who lived during the reign of the Emperor Trajan. He is best known for his correspondence with the ancient Roman philosopher and statesman, Lucius Seneca, and for recording the natural history of the time in his Naturalis Historia.

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So 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
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Nullus 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
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Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great. Pliny The Younger
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Poets have a license to lie. Pliny The Younger