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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

~Aristotle
(384—322 BCE)

" Καί συ, τέκνον; "
Even you, son?

last words

~C. (Gaius) Iulius Caesar

"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."

"There is just one life for each of us: our own."

~Euripides

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

~Galileo

"Painting is silent poetry."

"Moralia: How to Study Poetry"

~Plutarch
historian/biographer, essayist, & senior priest of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (ca. 45—120 CE)

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Our youth now loves luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people, children nowaday are tyrants... they contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

~Socrates
(469—399 BCE)

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