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Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
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Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
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The childless escape much misery.
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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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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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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
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For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
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An ally need not own the land he helps.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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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's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
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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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Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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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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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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Action achieves more than words.
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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
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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.