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• One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines.
• Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
• Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
• These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be
  but still they are better than that which is downright bad....
• We should provide in peace what we need in war. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 709
• Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another!
  What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!...
• In adversity remember to keep an even mind. -- Horace (8 BC)
• We are all driven into the same fold. -- Horace (8 BC)
• The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.