Nicolaus Copernicus  - Quotes

 Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur. 

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Tommaso Campanella  - Quotes

 Stultorum cavea mundus est. 

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Titus Lucretius Carus  - Quotes

 A man leaves his great house because he's bored

With life at home, and suddenly returns,

Finding himself no happier abroad.

He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,

You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,

And yawns before he's put his foot inside,

Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,

Or even rushes back to town again.

So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because

It clings to him the more closely against his will)

And hates himself because he is sick in mind

And does not know the cause of his disease.
 

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Horace  - Quotes

 Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur. 

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J.K. Rowling  - Quotes

 Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus 

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Titus Maccius Plautus  - Quotes

 Homo homini lupis est. 

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Julia Alvarez  - Quotes

 Time is how you spend your love. 

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Epicurus  - Quotes

 Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other. 

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Adam Ereli  - Quotes

 Veni, vidi, vici 

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Willie Perdomo  - Quotes

 This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here. 

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Martin Espada  - Quotes

 Even the most political poem is an act of faith. 

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Mercedes Lackey  - Quotes

 Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.  

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Christopher Marlowe  - Quotes

 Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? 

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