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• Nobility is the one only virtue. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire viii, 20
• Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 83...
• Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physicia
  fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything....
• Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
  -- Juvenal...
• Rather than be less, Car'd not to be at all.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 47...
• For never, never, wicked man was wise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 320...
• Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Agesilaus II...
• Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
• No good man ever grew rich all at once. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 837