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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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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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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good
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Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments smelled of the lamp, replied, Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.
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These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people they call a spade a spade.
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
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Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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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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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
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Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
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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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