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- The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
- Anonymous
- Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.
- Anonymous
- It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
- Dare to be wise.
(Sapere Aude) - Anonymous
- Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should be an eye,
To wander o'er thy beauties here. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
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