Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo, better known as Pliny the Younger, (61–112) 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 Younger were witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, in which the former died.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Perfection
It is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical exercise.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Health
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Worry, Anxiety, Fear
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Honor
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
—Pliny the Younger
The longest day is soon ended.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Persistence
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
—Pliny the Younger
Topics: Living
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