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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
  -- Sextus Propertius (Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes)...
• This expression of ours, "Father of a family.
  -- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD) -- Letters, Book v, Letter xix, 2...
• Let zeal be ever present, but hesitation absent. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
• Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xix, Sect. 59...
• In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Aulularia, Act ii, Sc. 2, 18, (195.)...
• Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Chilo, ii
• Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another!
  What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!...
• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. -- Ovid (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.)