Algebra was easy for the Romans because "X" was always 10.
Author: Anonymous
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Trust one who has gone through it.
Author: Virgil
Source: The Aeneid
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
Author: Gustav Holst
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Author: Confucius
Source: The Confucian Analects
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It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
Author: Homer
Source: The Odyssey
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As was his language so was his life.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Each of us bears his own Hell.
Author: Virgil
Source: Aeneid
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Author: Woody Allen
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Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
Author: Aesop
Source: The Goose with the Golden Eggs
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Author: Confucius
Source: The Confucian Analects
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One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Author: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Author: Euripides
Source: Fragment
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Author: Horace
Source: Epistles
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A snake lurks in the grass.
Author: Virgil
Source: Eclogues
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Author: Euripides
Source: Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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