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There are added the best sententiae of the ancient poets, chosen sparingly and with severe judgement.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)

If nothing had survived of Seneca's plays but a collection of sententiae, we might have regretted his loss almost as we regret the loss of Menander.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

X. Quot homines tot sententiae: suus cuique mos.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

It took the form of a caution against “mixing up things that differ,” and to this also among his sententiae I assented quod latius patet.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

And so to the chapel, and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wotton's stone with this Epitaph:   Hic jacet primus hujus sententiae Author:—   Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies.

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron