Aulus Gellius quotes
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“A man should be religious, not superstitious.”
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“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.”
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“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]”
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“The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.”
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“I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video”
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“Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.”
-- Aulus GelliusSource : Aulus Gellius (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aulus Gellius - 'The Attic Nights' (Illustrated)”, p.337, Delphi Classics
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“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”
-- Aulus GelliusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
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