1I approve of your having read my little books with your father. 1It contributes to your progress to learn from a most eloquent man what should be praised and what criticised, and at the same time to be so trained that you grow used to speaking the truth. 2You see whom you ought to follow, in whose footsteps you ought to tread. 2How fortunate you are, to whom it has fallen to have one and the same model both the best and the most closely connected to you, and who, in short, have as the man you should above all imitate him whom nature wished you most to resemble! 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae VIII
Pliny, Letter 8.13
Learning from a father's example
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