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Pliny the Younger

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him. Both Pliny the Elder and the Younger were witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, in which the former died.

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Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Discernment, Favors, Perception, Powers, Prejudiced

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

Done, Everything, Favour, Forget Everything, May, Refusal

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Denial, Effaced, Favors, Former, Men, Receive

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

Excellent, Hath, Masters, Taught

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

Binding, Honor, Obligation, People, Under

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Happiness, Joy, Literature, Sorrow, Writing

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Book, Est, Mali, Malus, Parte, Profitable

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Activity, Bodily, Exercise, Mind, Wonderful

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

Charm, Familiar, Generosity, Lovely, Set

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

Fear, Feeling, Feelings, Love, Stronger

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

Book, Gratitude, Might, Pliny, Say, Used

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Character, Characters, Committing, Errors, Faults, Moral

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Concerning, Doubt, Rectitude, Thing

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Interest, Investing, Land, Millions, Three, Trouble

Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

Case, Fall, Let, Lying, Mean, Posterity

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Admired, Artist, Finishing, Left, Painting, Visible

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Actions, Consequence, Glory, Motive, Our Actions

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Afraid, Afraid Of Death, Death, Prayed

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

Enhance, Favors, Value, Values, Words

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

Body, Disease, Government, Men, Proceeds

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