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Category: proverb

Posted on September 16, 2022

“Would you rise in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.”—Chinese proverb

Posted on December 30, 2021December 30, 2021

“Anywhere is the center of the world.”—Black Elk, Native American holy man, 1863-1950 AD

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”—Lao-tsu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on March 19, 2021

“Good sense, not age, brings wisdom.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on March 14, 2021

“While both Plato and truth are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on March 8, 2021

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

“No man ever wore a cravat as nice as his own child’s arm around his neck.”—Irish proverb

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

“The new broom sweeps the house best.”—Irish proverb

Posted on February 17, 2021February 16, 2021

“It’s the last suitor that wins the maid.”—Irish proverb

Posted on December 25, 2020

“There is no great genius without tincture of madness.”—Seneca the Younger, Roman satirist, c. 4 BC-65 AD

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