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The Daily Extract™/Proverbium Seniorum™ is a Commonplace Book in the form of a Blog of Quotations, Epigrams, and Excerpts. It can be found at https://proverbiumseniorum.blog/ Engraving: “Odin in the guise of a wanderer," 1886, Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Posted on December 21, 2016February 12, 2026

“The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on December 19, 2016February 12, 2026

“No one in business can prosper if he believes what he is told.”—Petronius (Gaius Petronius Arbiter), Roman author, c. 27–c. 66 AD

Posted on December 18, 2016

“A friend’s eye is a good mirror.”—Irish proverb

Posted on December 17, 2016February 13, 2026

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than one innocent suffer.”—Sir William Blackstone, English jurist, 1723-1780

Posted on December 16, 2016February 13, 2026

“Endless money forms the sinews of war.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on December 15, 2016February 13, 2026

“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, 1749-1834

Posted on December 14, 2016December 14, 2016

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

“More worship the rising than the setting sun.”—Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), Roman politician, 106-48 BC

Posted on December 12, 2016December 12, 2016

“It is best to win without fighting.”—Sun-Tzu, Chinese strategist, 544 BC – 496 BC

Posted on December 11, 2016February 14, 2026

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”—Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860

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