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• The gods looked with favour on superior courage. -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, iv, 17
• He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, ii, 80...
• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 38...
• Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men. -- John Stuart Mill
• It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong
  he may still properly have other concerns to engage him...
• It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered
  never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb....
• Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
  -- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), The Author, Line 233...
• All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 35...
• They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape
  or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water....