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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
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The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
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For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
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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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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
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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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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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Always desire to learn something useful.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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A friend in word is never friend of mine.
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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
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To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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What men have seen they know. . . .