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Proverbium Seniorum (Wisdom of the Elders)

Posted on December 3, 2019

“His greatest fault was his desire not to please the best people, but to please the most people.”—Seneca the Younger, Roman satirist, c. 4 BC – 65 AD

Posted on December 1, 2019December 1, 2019

“Everything yields to diligence.”—Antiphanes, Greek writer, 388-311 BC

Posted on November 28, 2019November 28, 2019

“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924

Posted on November 20, 2019November 20, 2019

“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.”—Terry Wogan, BBC broadcaster, 1938-2016

Posted on November 13, 2019November 13, 2019

“With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.”—George Burns, American comedian, 1896-1996

Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019

“The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.”—Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, 1872-1970

Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

“Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than money.”—Robert H. Jackson, US Attorney General, 1892-1954

Posted on October 26, 2019

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

“Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”—Confucius (attributed), Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

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