The living voice is that which sways the soul. - Pliny the Younger

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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

Pliny the Younger

The living voice is that which sways the soul.

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Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

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

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The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

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They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

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Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.

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