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“Fortes Fortuna iuvat.”
“In wine, there's truth.”
“Truth comes out in wine.”
“Haec est Italia diis sacra”
“Home is where the heart is.”
“Poets have a license to lie.”
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”
“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners it is for us to produce something worth being written and hea...”
“There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.”
“Out of Africa, there is always something new.”
“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”
“Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.”
“Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”
“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
“From the end spring new beginnings.”
“It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.”
“Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.”
“Shoemaker stick to your last.”
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
“In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)”
“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
“The brain is the citadel of sense perception.”
“The longest day is soon ended.”
