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If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
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Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
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