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Time is the wisest of all counselors.
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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. They are tall, said he, and comely, but bear no fruit.
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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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He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
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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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Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy is the art of living.
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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
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Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.
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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
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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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So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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I see the cure is not worth the pain.
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