Pliny the Younger

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

“There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,—that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.”

“Plenus annis abit, plenus honoribus.”

“The living voice is that which sways the soul.”

“By then day had broken everywhere, but here it was still night—no, more than night.”

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

“Everything was done.”

“Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit.”