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- One good turn deserves another.
- Gaius Petronius (~66 AD), (Petronius Arbiter), Satyricon
- Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
- Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD), Epigrams
- Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
- The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
- An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
- When the candles are out all women are fair.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
- For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
- When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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