Quotes from Pliny (the Younger)

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

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.

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

This expression of ours, "Father of a family."

Modestus said of Regulus that he was "the biggest rascal that walks upon two legs."