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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

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Euripides
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Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly but we can't bring it to achievement.
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
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This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
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There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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Much effort, much prosperity.
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It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.
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All is change all yields its place and goes.
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The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
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A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
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Fate finds for every man his share of misery.
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tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!
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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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A woman should always stand by a woman.
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.
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