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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC
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Thought and Reason
A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century
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Thought and Reason
A thought is an idea in transit.MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC
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Society
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tEssayistGreek46 · 1st century
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.3.7 · 29 votes · 69 reads
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC
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