When you see yourself quoted in print and you’re sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation. – Laurence J. Peter, Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times, 1977

Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves. – Macrobius, translated from Latin

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good. – Seneca, “On Tranquility of Mind,” translated by Moses Hadas