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Only fools need suffer to learn.
Hesiod
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
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Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
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Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone and especially invite the one who lives near you.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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Money is life to us wretched mortals.
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No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
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