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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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Truth is always the strongest argument.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
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It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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Better not to exist than live basely.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
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496 BC
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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There is no success without hardship.
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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