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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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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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For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
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The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength.
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Love is like ice in the hands of children.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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What you can't enforce, do not command.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
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Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
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To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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