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- Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phoenix
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
- The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Force has no place where there is need of skill.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), Inscription, New York City Post Office, adapted from Herodotus
- Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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