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• He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Annales, vi, 39, 17...
• Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pompey...
• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vi, 54...
• The images of twenty of the most illustrious families--the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour--were carried before it [the bier of Junia].
  Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre....
• He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
  -- Tacitus (54-119 AD) -- Historiae, ii, 80...
• When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Diogenes, vi...
• He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself.
  He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is....
• There is a house in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun. -- The Animal
• The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Cornelius Tacitus, 56-120 A.D.