Sextus Quotes

#1. It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.

Terry Tempest Williams

#2. To every argument an equal argument is opposed,

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#3. The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

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#4. Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

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#5. Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

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#6. Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

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#7. Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

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#8. Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

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#9. The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

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#10. Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

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#11. Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

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#12. The meaning of culture is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

John Cowper Powys

#13. The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

Mathias Rust

#14. Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

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#15. Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

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#16. It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.

Samuel Rutherford

#17. Love can be put off, never abandoned.

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#18. When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

#19. Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

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#20. Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.

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#21. Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

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#22. Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

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#24. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

Moshe Sharett

#25. Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

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#26. By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

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#27. By skepticism ... we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

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#28. Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

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#29. If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it

Aziz Hamza

#30. Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

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