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Posted on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”—Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath, 1452-1519

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

“A fire cannot throw a great light without burning something.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021

“Laugh at life. Do not cry over it.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC-65 AD

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

“If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man, but degrade the cat.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on June 21, 2021June 21, 2021

“Many admire, few know.”—Hippocrates, Greek physician, 460-370 BC

Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BCE

Posted on June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

“Where there’s life, there’s hope.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on May 11, 2021

“What does not destroy me, makes me strong.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on May 9, 2021

“We are the slaves of objects around us.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, 1749-1834

Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021

“I’ve seen hammers with the handles off cleverer than he is!”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

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