It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and rep… - Pliny the Younger

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It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and repose; since I have known in fine, that indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing, and being nothing.

Pliny the Younger

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, an author and a natural philosopher of Ancient Rome.

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Alternative Names: C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus • Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus • the Younger Pliny • Gaius Caecilius Cilo

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He used to say that "no book was so bad but that some good might be got out of it."

Usus, magister egregius.

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

It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and repose; since I have known in fine, that indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing, a… - Pliny the Younger

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