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Painting is silent poetry.

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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
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Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
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Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, Action, and which was the second, he replied, action, and which was the third, he still answered Action.
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To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you.
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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
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Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
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He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.
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Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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