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- The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
- Quintilian
- Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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