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I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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Virtue proceeds through effort.
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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
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When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.
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Time will bring healing.
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When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
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Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."
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O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
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Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
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Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
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