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- The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
- Caesar Augustus (63 BC - 14 AD), from Plutarch, Apothegms
- Better late than never.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD), History
- We can learn even from our enemies.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Metamorphoses
- Time the devourer of all things.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Metamorphoses
- To add insult to injury.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD), Fables
- 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 (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- 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 (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
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