"I found Rome brick, I left it marble."

Augustus, Caesar on life
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"Truth is always the strongest argument."

Sophocles on truth
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"Chance never helps those who do not help themselves."

Sophocles on self-reliance   

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

Sophocles on proverbs
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"None loves the messenger who brings bad news."

Sophocles on news
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love."

Sophocles on love
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"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

Sophocles on leadership
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

Sophocles on kindness
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"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

Sophocles on honesty
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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles on forgiveness
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"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

Sophocles on failure
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"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."

Thucydides on happiness
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"The secret of freedom, courage."

Thucydides on freedom
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"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."

Homer on friends and friendship   

"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle on poverty and the poor
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"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

Aristotle on memory
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"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."

Euripides on environment   

"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."

Euripides on food and eating   

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Caesar, Julius on victory
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"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

Caesar, Julius on men
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"They condemn what they do not understand."

Cicero, Marcus T. on criticism
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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"As you have sown so shall you reap."

Cicero, Marcus T. on results
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"Before beginning, plan carefully."

Cicero, Marcus T. on planning
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"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."

Cicero, Marcus T. on peace
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"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on glory
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"Life is nothing without friendship."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

Cicero, Marcus T. on food and eating
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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fame   

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Authority is never without hate."

Euripides on authority   

"The language of truth is simple."

Euripides on language
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Socrates on evil   

"Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Socrates on food and eating
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