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- 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)
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Remember that lost time does not return.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
- Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
- William Blackstone (1723 - 1780)
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