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

Augustus, Caesar on Cities and City 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
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"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 Leaders and 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
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"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
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"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."

Euripides on Food and Eating
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"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 Critics and 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
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"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
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"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 and Living
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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 Good and Evil
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"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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