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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Vita est militia.

St. Augustine of Hippo

Divide et impera.

Commonly attributed to Julius Caesar or Philip II of Macedon, but no specific author is definitively known

Ex nihilo nihil.

Parmenides, Lucretius

Fortis Fortuna iuvat.

Plautus, Virgil

In medias res.

Horace

Primus inter pares.

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