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- Words have a longer life than deeds.
- Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes
- Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Word is a shadow of a deed.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC), Fragment 145
- Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen
- Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
- To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
- Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD), Natural History
- Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
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