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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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Money is the wise man's religion.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.
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If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
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In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
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A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
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What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
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Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.
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I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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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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There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
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