 Quotation |
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| A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Never promise more than you can perform. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| No one should be judge in his own case. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948) |
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| It is only the ignorant who despise education. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| It is not every question that deserves an answer. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| No man is happy who does not think himself so. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Money alone sets all the world in motion. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. |
Emo Phillips |
US comedian |
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| No one knows what he can do till he tries. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
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| Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. |
Sextus Propertius |
Elegies
Roman poet (? - 15 BC) |
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| Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. |
Sextus Propertius |
Elegies
Roman poet (? - 15 BC) |
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| Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
Sextus Propertius |
Elegies
Roman poet (? - 15 BC) |
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| To be loved, be lovable. |
Ovid |
Ars Amatoria
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) |
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| Nothing is stronger than habit. |
Ovid |
Ars Amatoria
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) |
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| We can learn even from our enemies. |
Ovid |
Metamorphoses
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) |
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| Time the devourer of all things. |
Ovid |
Metamorphoses
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) |
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| To add insult to injury. |
Phaedrus |
Fables
Roman author of fables (15 BC - 50 AD) |
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| It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| The best ideas are common property. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. |
Solon |
Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC - 559 BC) |
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| It is quality rather than quantity that matters. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| There is no great genius without some touch of madness. |
Seneca |
Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
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| Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]. |
Caligula (Gaius Caesar) |
From Suetonius
Roman emperor 037-041 (12 AD - 41 AD) |
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| In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. |
Pliny the Elder |
Natural History
Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) |
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| Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? |
Pliny the Elder |
Natural History
Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) |
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| There is always something new out of Africa. |
Pliny the Elder |
Natural History
Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) |
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| The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. |
Pierre Charron |
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| The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. |
Pliny the Elder |
Natural History
Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD - 79 AD) |
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| One good turn deserves another. |
Gaius Petronius |
(~66 AD) |
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| A liar should have a good memory. |
Quintilian |
De Institutione Oratoria
Roman rhetorician |
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| Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. |
Quintilian |
De Institutione Oratoria
Roman rhetorician |
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| Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. |
Flavius Josephus |
Life
Jewish-Roman historian & turncoat (37 AD - 100 AD) |
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| Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. |
Marcus Valerius Martialis |
Epigrams
(40 AD - 103 AD) |
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| A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. |
Marcus Valerius Martialis |
Epigrams
(40 AD - 103 AD) |
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| Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure. |
Marcus Valerius Martialis |
Epigrams
(40 AD - 103 AD) |
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| Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. |
Plutarch |
Lives
Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) |
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| Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. |
Sidney J. Harris |
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| The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. |
Plutarch |
Morals
Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) |
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| An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. |
Plutarch |
Morals
Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) |
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| When the candles are out all women are fair. |
Plutarch |
Morals
Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) |
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| For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. |
Plutarch |
Morals
Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD - 120 AD) |
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| When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? |
Epictetus |
Discourses
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
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| Only the educated are free. |
Epictetus |
Discourses
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
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| What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. |
Epictetus |
Discourses
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
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| It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. |
Juvenal |
Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) |
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Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) |
Juvenal |
Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) |
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| Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. |
Juvenal |
Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) |
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| Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. |
Aesop |
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC) |
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| The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses! |
Juvenal |
Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) |
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| You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. |
Juvenal |
Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) |
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| It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. |
Cornelius Tacitus |
Histories
Roman historian & politician (55 AD - 117 AD) |
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| An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. |
Pliny the Younger |
Letters
Roman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) |
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| That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. |
Pliny the Younger |
Letters
Roman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) |
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| His only fault is that he has no fault. |
Pliny the Younger |
Letters
Roman author & politician (62 AD - 114 AD) |
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| You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. |
Brendan Francis |
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| The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| Very little is needed to make a happy life. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
Meditations
Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) |
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| Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. |
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus |
Adversus Valentinianos
Carthaginian church father (160 AD - 230 AD) |
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| Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus |
De Carne Christi
Carthaginian church father (160 AD - 230 AD) |
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| When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. |
Saint Ambrose |
Taylor
Italian saint & church father (339 AD - 397 AD) |
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| Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. |
Spanish Proverb |
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| The friendship that can cease has never been real. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| The scars of others should teach us caution. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. |
Saint Jerome |
Letter
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| Never give advice unless asked. |
German Proverb |
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| Never look a gift horse in the mouth. |
Saint Jerome |
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD) |
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| No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. |
Saint John Chrysostom |
Letter to Olympia
saint, church father, & patriarch (347 AD - 407 AD) |
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| Let him who desires peace prepare for war. |
Flavius Vegetius Renatus |
(~375 AD) |
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| I was in love with loving. |
Saint Augustine |
Confessions
Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) |
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| Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. |
The Talmud |
Mishna. Sanhedrin |
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. |
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib |
A Hundred Sayings
(602 AD - 661 AD) |
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