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- Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
- 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
- Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
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