Author of quotes: Gaius Plinius Caecilius Seconds (Pliny The Younger)

... I see that the room is empty, and leave her with pain and longing in the soul, as a lover, who was turned away at the door...

No matter how obliged you, if you deny one thing, they only remember the refusal.

He truly noble who forgives easily take advantage of people and at the same time so afraid to do something wrong, as if he never forgave.

The trouble often makes people witty.

Everyone dear to his own speculation, and if someone else say the same thing, what he assumed, for him, this is the strongest argument.

Bad, if the government feels its power on the insults; bad if respect is acquired in horror: love much more than fear, you will achieve what you want. After all, when you leave, the fear will disappear and love will remain, and how it turns to hate, so she turns to reverence.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be described, and to write what deserves to be read.

Devotion villains as unreliable as they are.

Slaves of passion mad at other people's defects as if they are jealous, and the hardest to punish those whom they would like to emulate.

Hypocritical love is worse than hatred.

The people were filled with such lust for profit, which apparently, they no longer are under the power of their property than own it.

Better to do nothing than to do nothing.

And joy, and consolation in the Sciences.

In what narrow limits wedged the lives of many people!