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Phaedrus: 'The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.'

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Phaedrus: 'Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.'

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Phaedrus: 'It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.'

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Phaedrus: 'The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.'

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Phaedrus: 'The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.'

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Phaedrus: 'Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.'

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Phaedrus: 'Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.'

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Phaedrus: 'An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.'

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Phaedrus: 'Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.'

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Titus: 'Alas, I think I am becoming a god.'

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Aulus Gellius: 'Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.'

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Aulus Gellius: 'I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.'

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Aulus Gellius: 'Truth is the daughter of time.'

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Augustus: 'Hasten slowly.'

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Augustus: 'Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'

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Augustus: 'I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Love can be put off, never abandoned.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.'

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Sextus Propertius: 'Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.'

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