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- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) - Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD), Histories
- There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
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