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- To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
- Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
- Moralia
- Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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