Pliny the Younger Quote

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.


Letters, and Panegyricus: Letters, Books I-VII (ed. Loeb Classical Library, 1969)


So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us ...

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us ...

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us ...

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us ...