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- Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].
- Caligula (Gaius Caesar) (12 AD - 41 AD), From Suetonius
- 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
- There is always something new out of Africa.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
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