Pliny, Letter 5.18

1It is well with me because it is well with you. 1You have your wife with you, you have your son; 1you are enjoying the sea, the springs, the greenery, the estate and a most delightful house. 1For I do not doubt that it is most delightful, the house in which a man settled himself when he was fortunate, before he became most fortunate. 2I, at my Tuscan estate, am both hunting and studying, which I do sometimes in turn, sometimes at once; 2but I cannot yet declare whether it is harder to catch something or to write something. 2Farewell.