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Posted on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020

“The good befriend themselves.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

Posted on June 7, 2020

“In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century BC

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

“Convention is the ruler of all.”—Pindar, Greek poet, 522-443 BC

Posted on May 23, 2020

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020

“The object of art is to give life shape.”—Jean Anouilh, French dramatist, 1910-1987

Posted on May 5, 2020May 5, 2020

“The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on May 2, 2020May 2, 2020

“God rewards virtue; He shouldn’t have to furnish it.”—Aulus Gellius, Roman author, 125-180 AD

Posted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

“I want to know God’s thoughts—the rest are mere details.”—Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

“They boasted that they had no faults; they also had no virtues.”—Marcus Quintilian, Roman rhetorician, 1st century AD

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

“I know only two tunes: one is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn’t.”—Ulysses S. Grant, US president, 1822-1885

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