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- The best ideas are common property.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].
- Caligula (Gaius Caesar) (12 AD - 41 AD), From Suetonius
- In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- 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
- The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
- Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
- Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD), Life
- Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
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