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PROVERBIUM SENIORUM — Quotations that have aged well

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Posted on January 5, 2022

“I may be sick and I may seem dumb. That don’t mean you know where I’m coming from.”—Lyric from “Qualified”, by Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr.), American songwriter, 1941-2019

Posted on August 6, 2021August 7, 2021

“Success is an accident—well placed.”—John M. Shanahan, American entrepreneur, 1928-2005

Posted on July 31, 2021

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.”—Thucydides, Athenian historian, c. 460 — c. 400 BC

Posted on July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

“Anything we haven’t seen before is marvelous.”—Tacitus, Roman senator, 56-117 AD

Posted on July 24, 2021July 24, 2021

“Time discovers truth.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC – 65 AD

Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

“I love everything that’s old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on July 20, 2021July 20, 2021

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021

“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

“If you don’t bring Paris with you, you won’t find it there.”—John M. Shanahan, American entrepreneur, 1928-2005

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

“I have been a stranger in a strange land.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

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