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- An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- His only fault is that he has no fault.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- Out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), De Carne Christi
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), On the Epistle to the Ephesians
- No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- Saint John Chrysostom (347 AD - 407 AD), Letter to Olympia
- 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
- 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 (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
- Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
- He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]
- Eike von Repkow (~1220), Sachsenspiegel
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