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Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

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Invite your friend to dinner have nothing to do with your enemy.
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Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
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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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Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
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Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
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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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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
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Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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The half is greater than the whole.
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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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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
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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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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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You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
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Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
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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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Preserve the mean the opportune moment is best in all things.
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Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
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