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The fool learns by suffering.
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Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
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Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
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The half is greater than the whole.
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Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
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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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Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
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And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
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The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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