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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Hesiod
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At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
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The fool learns by suffering.
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An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
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Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
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Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
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The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.
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