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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
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The childless escape much misery.
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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
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Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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An ally need not own the land he helps.
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What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
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One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
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Action achieves more than words.
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Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.