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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
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The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
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Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.
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The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
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Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
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Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
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I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.
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We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
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