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- If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), The Notebooks
- If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
- I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
- Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
- Hugh Prather
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