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Category: Quotations

Posted on December 2, 2016February 15, 2026

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 384-322 BC

Posted on November 30, 2016February 15, 2026

“Force has no place where there is need of skill.”—Herodotus, Greek historian, c. 484–c. 425 BC

Posted on November 29, 2016February 15, 2026

“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC — c. 65 AD

Posted on November 28, 2016October 2, 2020

“For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on November 25, 2016November 25, 2016

“Big book, big bore.”—Callimachus, Greek critic, 305-240 BC

Posted on November 23, 2016February 17, 2026

“Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.”—Suzanne Curchod Necker, Swiss salonist, 1737-1794

Posted on November 22, 2016February 17, 2026

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, c. 470 — 399 BC

Posted on November 21, 2016December 17, 2022

“Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.”—Georges Braque, French artist, 1882-1963

Posted on November 20, 2016February 17, 2026

“Friends share all things.”—Pythagoras, Greek philosopher, c. 570 — c. 490 BC

Posted on November 19, 2016February 17, 2026

“Traveling is glamorous only in retrospect.”—Paul Theroux, American travel writer, 1941–

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