Apologia da leitura selectiva

I have not told you what kind of authors you should read; though indeed that was sufficiently implied when I told you on what you should write. Remember to be careful in your choice of authors of every kind: for, as it has been well observed, "though we should read much, we should not read many books".

Plínio, o Jovem, Carta LXXVI (a Tusco),

in Letters of Pliny (trad. William Melmoth),

Middlesex: The Echo Library, 2006. P. 85.