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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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Delusive hope still points to distant good.
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I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
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Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
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Enough is abundance to the wise.
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Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
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There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
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Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
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Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
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If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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Life is short, yet sweet.
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To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
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Only a madman would give good for evil.
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