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- To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- The whole world is a man's birthplace.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC)
- Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
- Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)
- May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
- Anonymous
- By courage I repel adversity.
(Adversa Virtute Repello) - Anonymous
- Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat) - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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