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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 September 6, 2021

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on September 5, 2021September 5, 2021

“A good mind possesses a kingdom.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC–65 AD

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

“The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021

“Mankind censures injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”—Alan Kay, American computer graphics designer, 1940-

Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

“Many commit the same crime and face a different fate: that man gets the cross, this one the crown.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD

Posted on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”—Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath, 1452-1519

Posted on August 25, 2021

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on August 23, 2021January 28, 2023

“Goodness had nothing to do with it.”—Mae West, American actress, 1893-1980

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

“A fire cannot throw a great light without burning something.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

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