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For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if
you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one
denial.
[Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc
solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]
Favors
Quotes, by Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) , Source: Epistles (III, 4)
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Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the
words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be
more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the
carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a
deeper impression upon the mind.
[Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit:
nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent,
quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]
Oratory
Quotes, by Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) , Source: Epistles (II, 3)
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And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
serious which proceeds from the head.
[Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est
morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]
Disease
Quotes, by Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus) , Source: Epistles (bk. IV, 22)
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