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PROVERBIUM SENIORUM — Quotations that have aged well

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Posted on December 28, 2020

“Few people know how to be old.”—François de La Rochefoucauld, French maximist, 1613-1680

Posted on December 11, 2020

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on October 24, 2020

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.”—Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father, 1743-1826

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020

“Veracity is the heart of morality.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on August 15, 2020

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020

“Actors are cattle.”—Alfred Hitchcock, English film director, 1899-1980

Posted on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

“No furniture so charming as books.”—Sydney Smith, English writer, 1771-1845

Posted on July 26, 2020July 26, 2020

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”—Anais Nin, American-Cuban essayist, 1903-1977

Posted on March 19, 2020

“The cautious seldom err.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC

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