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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
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Silence is an ornament for women.