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Category: Quotations

Posted on December 23, 2016December 23, 2016

“They are able who think they are able.”—Virgil, Roman poet

Posted on December 22, 2016December 26, 2020

“The first blow is half the battle.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on December 21, 2016December 21, 2016

“The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.”—Cicero, Roman philosopher

Posted on December 19, 2016December 19, 2016

“No one in business can prosper if he believes what he is told.”—Petronius, Roman author

Posted on December 18, 2016

“A friend’s eye is a good mirror.”—Irish proverb

Posted on December 17, 2016December 17, 2016

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than one innocent suffer.”—Sir William Blackstone, English jurist

Posted on December 16, 2016December 16, 2016

“Endless money forms the sinews of war.”—Cicero, Roman philosopher

Posted on December 15, 2016

“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”—von Goethe

Posted on December 14, 2016December 14, 2016

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC

Posted on December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

“More worship the rising than the setting sun.”—Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), Roman politician, 106-48 BC

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