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For the wise man, every day is a festival.
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Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
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The old proverb was now made good, 'the mountain had brought forth a mouse.'
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Said Scopas of Thessaly, 'We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.'
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
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Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
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So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, 'He ails nothing,' 'It is because, sir,' he replied, 'I use none of your physic.'
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For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
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As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.
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And when the physician said, 'Sir, you are an old man,' 'That happens,' replied Pausanias, 'because you never were my doctor.'
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What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves.
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