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Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
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Preserve the mean the opportune moment is best in all things.
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Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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In work there is no shame shame is in the idleness.
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Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
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Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
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Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
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Neither make thy friend equal to a brother but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
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Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
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That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
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