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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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You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
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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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Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
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Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.
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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
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A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
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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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He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
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Money is life to us wretched mortals.
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Only fools need suffer to learn.
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
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It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
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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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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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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
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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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