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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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To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
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A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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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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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 man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
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Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
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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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I care for riches, to make gifts.
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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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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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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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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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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
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I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.