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Category: maxims

Posted on August 21, 2017August 21, 2017

“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”—Thomas Jefferson, US President, 1743-1826

Posted on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017

“Money doesn’t satisfy greed; it stimulates it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.”—Victor Hugo, French poet, 19th century

Posted on August 13, 2017August 13, 2017

“A look in front is better than two behind.”—Irish proverb

Posted on August 12, 2017

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer, 18th century

Posted on August 10, 2017

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on November 17, 2016September 22, 2021

“Know thyself.”—Plutarch, Greek philosopher, 46-119 AD

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