Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
Pliny the YoungerPerhaps 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.
Pliny the YoungerThere is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
Pliny the Younger