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Category: Proverbium Seniorum

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 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

Posted on October 26, 2019

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on May 3, 2018May 3, 2018

“Be a good animal, true to your instincts.”—D.H. Lawrence, English novelist, 1885-1930

Posted on April 19, 2018

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on April 18, 2018April 18, 2018

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”—Mark Twain, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on April 1, 2018April 1, 2018

“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”—Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, 1918-2007

Posted on March 29, 2018March 29, 2018

“This nation cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”—John F. Kennedy, US President, 1917-1963

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