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I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.

Terence
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Sophocles
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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

Aeschylus
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Euripides
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Aristophanes
Aristophanes
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Plautus
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At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Menander
Menander

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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