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- A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
- Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
- There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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