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- Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Satires
- Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
- Better late than never.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD), History
- It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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