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"Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns."

By Anonymous

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"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

By Homer, The Odyssey

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"Slow and steady wins the race."

By Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

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"Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction."

By Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

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"Stranger in a strange country."

By Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

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"Slow but sure moves the might of the gods."

By Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.

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"Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?"

By Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.

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"Sincerity is the way of Heaven."

By Mencius, Works

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"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

By Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

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"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]"

By Horace, Odes

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"Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he."

By Publilius Syrus

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"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

By Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."

By William Wirt

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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."

By W. H. Auden

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"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

By Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

By Charles De Gaulle

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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

By Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

By William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 2 scene 1

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"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."