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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 November 2, 2021November 2, 2021

“There is no sin except stupidity.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

“Don’t wish ill for your enemy; plan it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on October 31, 2021

“There are some who speak one moment before they think.”—Jean de La Bruyère, French satirist, 1645-1696

Posted on October 30, 2021October 29, 2021

“What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

“If all men were just, there would be no need of valor.”—Agesilaus, King of Sparta, c.440 BC–c.360 BC

Posted on October 28, 2021October 27, 2021

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on October 21, 2021

“O mortal man, think mortal thoughts!”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on October 11, 2021

“He writes nothing whose writings are not read.”—Martialis, Roman poet from Hispania, 38 AD–104 AD

Posted on October 11, 2021October 10, 2021

“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”—Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American socialite, 1884-1980

Posted on October 10, 2021October 9, 2021

“Old age is the harbor of all ills.”—Bion of Smyrna, Greek bucolic poet, 1st century BC

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