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- A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- The whole world is a man's birthplace.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- The argument is at an end.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
- Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
- The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
- Anonymous
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