Epictetus
Philosopher
"Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan."
Nightingales quotes
Nightingales
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Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself."
John Keats
Poet
"Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth."
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