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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. Gaius Sallustius Crispus

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	Gaius Sallustius Crispus
	Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Read More

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. With Carthaginian faith i.e. Treachery.