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When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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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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Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
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We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.
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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
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Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
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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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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
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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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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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