Pliny the Younger: Man

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“A man must rate public and permanent, above private and fleeting advantages and study how to render his benefaction most useful, rather than how he may bestow it with least expense.”
Oportet privatis utilitatibus publicas, mortalibus aeternas anteferre, multoque diligentius muneri suo consulere quam facultatibus.

Pliny the Younger

Letter 18, 5.
Letters, Book VII

Study

“I contemplate the sort of friend, the sort of man I am now without. He completed his sixty-seventh year, a reasonable age for the sturdiest of us; I acknowledge that. He escaped from an interminable illness; I acknowledge that. He died with his dear ones surviving him, and at a time of prosperity for the state, which was dearer to him than all else; that too I acknowledge. Yet I lament his death as though he were young and in glowing health. I lament it—you can consider me a weakling in this—on my own account, for I have lost the witness, guardian and teacher of my life.”

Pliny the Younger

Letter 12, 11–13; on the death of his friend Cornelius Rufus.
Letters, Book I

Life , Death , Health , Age

“There is certainly no truth in the popular belief, that a man's will is the mirror of his character.”
Falsum est nimirum quod creditur vulgo, testamenta hominum speculum esse morum.

Pliny the Younger

Letter 18, 1.
Letters, Book VIII

Truth

“To name the man is to say all!”
Dixi omnia cum hominem nominavi.

Pliny the Younger

Letter 22, 4.
Letters, Book IV