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Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
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Pyrrhus (319 BC - 272 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
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An exile's life is no life.
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Leonidas of Tarentum (290 BC - 220 BC), from The Greek Anthology, 1973, Peter Jay
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
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Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
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Quintus Fabius Maximus (275 BC - 203 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
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Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
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On action alone be thy interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
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Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD), Chapter 2
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), On Agriculture
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC), Synephebi
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