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Category: Proverbium Seniorum

Posted on November 18, 2024November 18, 2024

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”—Julio Cortázar, Argentine-French author, 1914-1984

Posted on August 27, 2024November 18, 2024

“IN QUOTING OTHERS, WE CITE OURSELVES.”—Cortázar

Posted on December 26, 2023December 26, 2023

“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim writer, 1613-1680

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”—Agatha Christie, English mystery writer, 1890-1976

Posted on December 28, 2020

“Few people know how to be old.”—François de La Rochefoucauld, French maximist, 1613-1680

Posted on December 11, 2020

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on November 15, 2020

“Machines, from the Maxim gun to the computer, are for the most part, means by which a minority can keep free men in subjection.”—Sir Kenneth Clark, British art historian, 1903-1983

Posted on November 12, 2020

“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.”—Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, 1841-1919

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

“Those who can lick can bite.”—French proverb

Posted on October 30, 2020

“Of one power even God is deprived, and that is the power of making what is past never to have been.”—Agathon, Athenian poet, 448-400 BC

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