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Life is short, yet sweet.
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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.
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Time cancels young pain.
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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
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Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
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Enough is abundance to the wise.
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The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
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When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.
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Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
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Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
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Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
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Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
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If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
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Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.