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"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."
By Horace, Satires
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"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
By Horace, Odes
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"With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die."
By Horace, Odes
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"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."
By Publilius Syrus
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"What is left when honor is lost?"
By Publilius Syrus
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"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."
By Publilius Syrus
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"We can learn even from our enemies."
By Ovid, Metamorphoses
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"Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]."
By Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
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"When the candles are out all women are fair."
By Plutarch, Morals
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"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
By Epictetus, Discourses
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"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."
By Epictetus, Discourses
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"Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)"
By Juvenal, Satires
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"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
By Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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"When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere."
By Saint Ambrose, Taylor
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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."
By Saint Jerome, Letter
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"Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world."
By The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
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"Who will bell the cat?"
By William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content."
By Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."
By Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
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"Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day."
By French Proverb
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