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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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There is safety in numbers.
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
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Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!
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Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
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Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.
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Authority is never without hate.
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I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
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The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
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The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
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Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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The childless escape much misery.
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
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