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A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'

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I myself with my own eyes saw the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a flask; and when the boys cried at her: ' Sibyl, Sibyl, what do you want?' 'I would that I were dead,' she used to answer.

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For I myself saw the Sibyl indeed at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys used to say to her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she replied, 'I want to die."

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Practice moderation in all things, including moderation.

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The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.

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Delight of lust is gross and brief
And weariness treads on desire.


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A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

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Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline.

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Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

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Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

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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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Born: 27
Died: 66 (aged 39)
Bio: Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era.

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