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• He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Annales, vi, 39, 17...
• He [Tiberius] upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Annales, vi, 52 (46)...
• Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Protagoras, iii...
• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. xx...
• Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
• Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Consolation to Apolloniu...
• This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive.
  Reality is frequently inaccurate." This has lead to some interesting consequences....
• All those things which are now held to be of the greatest antiquity, were at one time new
  and what we today hold up by example, will rank hereafter as precedent. -- Tacitu...