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PROVERBIUM SENIORUM — Quotations that have aged well

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Posted on November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”—Sextus Propertius, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021

“I see and praise better things; I do worse ones.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC-18 AD

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

“We cannot all do everything.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on September 6, 2020

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on October 7, 2017October 7, 2017

“A traveller with empty pockets can whistle in a robber’s face.”—Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd century AD

Posted on July 16, 2017July 16, 2017

“Fortune favors the brave.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on July 5, 2017July 5, 2017

“Never despair.”—Horace, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on June 13, 2017June 13, 2017

“The monkey is repulsive; he’s much too much like us!—Quintus Ennius, Roman poet, 239-169 BC

Posted on February 25, 2017February 25, 2017

“Honesty is praised while it starves.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD

Posted on January 25, 2017January 25, 2017

“Seize the day!”—Horace, Roman lyric poet, 65-8 BC

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