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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 6, 2022December 5, 2022

“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim author, 1613-1680

Posted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022

“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, so cry away.”—Charles Dickens, English writer & social critic, 1812-1870

Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–

Posted on November 25, 2022November 24, 2022

“Intimacy requires courage, because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.”—Rollo May, American psychologist, 1909-1994

Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’ But not in those words.”—Woody Allen, American film director, 1935–

Posted on November 20, 2022

“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go constantly and desperately to the post office.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

Posted on November 19, 2022November 19, 2022

“There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, 1883-1955

Posted on November 18, 2022November 17, 2022

“He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022

“One’s prime is elusive.”—Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, 1918-2006

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