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Character is inured habit.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.
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Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.
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What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, This is a wonderful speech, said he but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.
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These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people they call a spade a spade.
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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
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Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
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As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, surely, quoth he, thou art all voice and nothing else.
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
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