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Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 6) Ants are good citizens they place group interests first. - Clarence Day Ants never sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (ch. IV) For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (bk. I, I, 33) While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. VI, ep. 15)
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