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Only fools need suffer to learn.
Hesiod
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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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Invite your friend to dinner have nothing to do with your enemy.
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The half is greater than the whole.
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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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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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