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• For my part, I think that a knowledge of the future would be a disadvantage.
  -- Cicero, "De Divinatione...
• The freedom of poetic license. -- Cicero (43 BC)
• While there's life, there's hope. -- Cicero (43 BC)
• 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....
• They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
  -- Ovid (43 BC) -- The Art of Love, i, 99...
• Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
  -- Ovid (43 BC) -- Metamorphoses, i...
• To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.
  For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?...
• For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.
  -- Cicero (106-43 BC) -- De Oratore, 78...
• This is the day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it! -- Psalm 118:24