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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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No lie ever reaches old age.
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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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A lie never lives to be old.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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Success is dependant on effort.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
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As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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