The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.


Titus Livius

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And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON
The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON
Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON
"yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT
The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
HIROSHI HATANAKA
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; / Even there shall ...
BIBLE
Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB
There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING
If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
THOMAS HOOD
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON
The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble ...
JOHN VINOCUR
And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN
To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.
JIM HOUDEK
When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even ...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shri...
ANNE BRONTE
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shri...
ANNE BRONTë
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
For I inhabit the spaces in between, where auras mix and hearts reach out and knowing hovers, and wh...
THE WIND SOPHIA IN FEATHERFOOT
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO TSE-TUNG
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT
I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD
As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
LEWIS CARROLL
Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD
The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a s...
JOHN MASEFIELD
Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moo...
MARTIN BUXBAUM
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
[The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM
He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND
I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP
Voice of the Sea Dogs.
JERRY GREEN
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING
The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI
Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA
It was fairly rough, the sea, but the worst part was the rain. There was quite heavy rain, although ...
DOUGLAS RICE
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and a...
BIBLE
The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN
It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this t...
GARY APPELSON
People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM
I fell to the floor, and then I slid into the sea.
JAIKUMAR GEORGE
They know how dangerous the sea is. They know about the deaths of other immigrants, and despite that...
LUIS CARRION
From what we see, the sea nettles seem to be concentrated in the northern end of Barnegat Bay.
MARC LABELLA
The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in ...
JUAN COLE
It plunged into the sea at an angle of 60 degrees.
VIKTOR BELTSOV
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN
No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
There are plenty of fish in the sea
AMERICAN PROVERB
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE
This is your timeThis is your danceLive every momentLeave nothing to chanceSwim in the seaDrink of t...
MICHAEL W. SMITH
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU
The Sea Pro range of boats are the perfect addition to our new boat portfolio. They are high quality...
IAN ROBERTS
When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys.
ANDREW G. DEHEL
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS
Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS
If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will st...
LED ZEPPELIN
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
KAHLIL GIBRAN
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather ...
EDWARD FORBES
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the ...
BIBLE
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
PERICLES
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
WILLIAM COWPER
They will redo the whole waterfront in Charlevoix - the sea wall and all the docks will be changed.
BILL BOIK
['The size of the sea' But others say the debate is important because it can determine whether actio...
JUAN COLE
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving f...
CHARLES DICKENS
Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Ti...
GEORGE MARTIN
The mountains look on Marathon - / And Marathon looks on the sea; / And musing there an hour alone, ...
LORD BYRON
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gath...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them.
LEONARD COHEN
And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h...
QURAN

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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligen...
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected witho...
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
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Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
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Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad sua...
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In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
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Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Cons...
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In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiams...
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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae pat...
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Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
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A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
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Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
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Instead of following through on their promise to concentrate on jobs, Republicans have attacked seni...
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. [Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
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As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
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I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.
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We might have to deal with food poisoning on top of everything else.
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In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
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Rashness is not fortunate
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Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it!
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Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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It well becomes a young man to be modest.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Not every age is fit for childish sports.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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Speak no evil of an absent friend.
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What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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The evil that we know is best.
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I am always afraid of your "something shall be done."
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A word to the wise is enough.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
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It becomes an emperor to die standing.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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No blessing lasts forever
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.]
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est ...
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Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-f...
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He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino gen...
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., S...
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You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam ae...
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To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere e...
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aete...
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
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If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus ...
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infam...
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam imp...
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom spr...
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Unto the pure all things are pure.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
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Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the fo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men...
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Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut na...
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit luc...
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Killing no murder.
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Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough....
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est pe...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindne...
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. ...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS)
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into thei...
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They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three cont...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [L...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum i...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius qua...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Better do nothing than do ill.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nu...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Q...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, ...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Good things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be li...
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
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A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
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A man of three letters, " F U R."
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom spr...
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