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- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
- Sextus Propertius (? - 15 BC), Elegies
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Sextus Propertius (? - 15 BC), Elegies
- So I can't live either without you or with you.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Amores
- Time the devourer of all things.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Metamorphoses
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
- The best ideas are common property.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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