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I do not think that shoemaker...

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

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What, did you not know, then,...

What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

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Antagoras the poet was boilin...

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?

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A lover's soul lives in the b...

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

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Pompey bade Sylla recollect t...

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

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The pilot cannot mitigate the...

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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Anacharsis coming to Athens, ...

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

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Pompey had fought brilliantly...

Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'

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So also it is good not always...

So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

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Empire may be gained by gold,...

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

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The Epicureans, according to ...

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

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Such power I gave the people ...

Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right.

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Cato requested old men not to...

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

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He who first called money the...

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

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It is a difficult task, O cit...

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

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Archimedes had stated, that g...

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

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Politics is not like an ocean...

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

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When I myself had twice or th...

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

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Whenever Alexander heard Phil...

Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

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Pythias once, scoffing at Dem...

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....