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Category: Quotations

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

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

Posted on July 10, 2021July 10, 2021

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”—Bernard Baruch, American financier, 1870-1965

Posted on July 3, 2021July 3, 2021

“A great fortune is a great slavery.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC-65 AD

Posted on July 2, 2021

“Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”—Hannah Arendt, American political scientist, 1906-1975

Posted on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on June 27, 2021June 27, 2021

“I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.”—Steve Jobs, American business magnate, 1955-2011

Posted on June 26, 2021

“The sick man does himself no favour when he makes the doctor his heir.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on June 26, 2021June 25, 2021

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”—Benjamin Disraeli, UK Prime Minister, 1804-1881

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