Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD – ca. 112 AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.
"You would have heard the wails of women, the shrieks of infants, shouts of men; some were seeking parents with their voices, others children, others spouses, and by their voices they were recognizing them; some were pitying their own misfortune, others the misfortune of their families; there were those who - due to the fear of death - were praying for death; many raised their hands toward the gods, more were concluding that there were no gods anywhere, and that this was the perpetual and final night for the world."
-Pliny the Younger, Letters, 16.20.14-15
“У нещастните езикът е един, у щастливите-друг.”
“Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.”
“There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.”
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.”
“nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat”
“nulla dies sine linea.”