To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.


Marcus T. Cicero

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You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
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By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
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First things first, second things never.
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The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
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Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
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Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]
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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea moles...
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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id et...
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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. [Lat., Causarum ignorati...
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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
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All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some...
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge...
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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicent...
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia liberta...
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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., La...
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We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Tra...
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamen...
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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rec...
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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria al...
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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim e...
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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat...
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat.,...
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It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., ...
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and eve...
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc p...
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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
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A fool must now and then be right by chance.
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vit...
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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi...
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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Li...
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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he di...
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He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo sp...
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Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsiste...
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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of ...
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evert...
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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori cr...
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To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the prov...
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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec d...
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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost ...
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinqu...
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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium...
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I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue,...
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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede ...
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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius mul...
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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negli...
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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socr...
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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit ...
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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est ...
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria ...
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e cus...
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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat...
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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo pertur...
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The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus q...
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Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cog...
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When they hold their tongues they cry out. [Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
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What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?]
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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos null...
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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...
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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malu...
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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omne...
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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores,...
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Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what inter...
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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