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• Liars ought to have good memories. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xv...
• Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
  -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap. ii, Sect. xviii...
• Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
  -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney...
• Comparisons are odious. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap.
  xxiii...
• Patience, and shuffle the cards. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap.
  xxiii...
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning such as read and dispute ostentatiously, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• I light my candle from their torches. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect.
  2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1...
• Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. -- Epictetus (c.
  60 AD) -- That Courage is not inconsistent with Caution, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. i...