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- When the candles are out all women are fair.
- It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
- Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often…
- There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.
- Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
- He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a…
- A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all…
- To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
- All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his…
- An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
- It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only…
- Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart…
- ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
- Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
- Time is the wisest of all counselors.
- In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and…
- What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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