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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
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When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
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Delusive hope still points to distant good.
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Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
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Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
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Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
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Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
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Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.
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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
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Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
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I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.
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The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
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We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.