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- An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~375 AD), De Rei Militari
- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings
- Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
- Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
- All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
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