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Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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The desire for all things diminishes when the occasion is too easy.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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Serve a hundred times, deny once, and no one will remember anything except your denial.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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The greatest number of the evils that man suffers come from man himself.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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There is no book so bad that it is not good for something.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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The happier the times, the sooner they pass.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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By nature, men like to see new things and to travel.

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Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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Fear is a poor teacher to give lessons in virtue.

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

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You don't seem to have won to triumph, but to triumph for having won.

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

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Many things are considered impossible before they have been done.

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

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The first denied favor cancels out all previous ones.