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- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
- Bion (~100 BC), from Plutarch, Water and Land Animals
- To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
- Quintus Fabius Maximus (275 BC - 203 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus
- Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Rudens
- Practice yourself what you preach.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Asinaria
- Even though work stops, expenses run on.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), On Agriculture
- Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
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