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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
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False words do not bring forth fruit.
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
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If they are just, they are better than clever.
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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A man is nothing but breath and shadow.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.
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In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.
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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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