1You do not applaud yourself, and I write nothing more faithfully than what I write about you. 1Whether posterity will have any care for us, I do not know; 1we certainly deserve that it should have some — I do not say for our talent, for that would be arrogant, but for our zeal and labour and reverence for posterity. 1Only let us continue on the road we have set out on, which, though it has brought few into light and fame, has brought many out of darkness and silence. 1Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.14
Labouring for posterity
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