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- The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- One good turn deserves another.
- Gaius Petronius (~66 AD), (Petronius Arbiter), Satyricon
- A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
- Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
- Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
- Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD), Life
- Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
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