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This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
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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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Invite your friend to dinner have nothing to do with your enemy.
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Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
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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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The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus
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The fool knows after he has suffered.
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They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
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There is also an evil report light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.
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You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
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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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A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.
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If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
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