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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 22, 2019December 22, 2019

“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.”—J. W. von Goethe, German writer, 1749-1834

Posted on December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

“Nothing quite new is perfect.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on December 12, 2019

“No man is wise enough for himself.”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

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

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