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| Email Friend | | | Pay attention to your enemies. They are the first to discover your mistakes.
- Antisthenes
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| Email Friend | | | The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
-Menander (342-292 BC)
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| Email Friend | | | Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food,
and tyrannize their teachers. What will become of them?
This world is truly coming to an end.
- Socrates
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| Email Friend | | | We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
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| Email Friend | | | The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
Hesiod (B.C. 800?)
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| Email Friend | | | Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
--Ibid
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| Email Friend | | | There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle...
"Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all
other precepts depend.
Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)
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| Email Friend | | | The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
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| Email Friend | | | "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it."
-- Aristotle
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| Email Friend | | | Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
--Marcus Aurelius
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