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It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon? Antagoras replied, Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?
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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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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
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The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, The enemy's ships are more than ours, replied, For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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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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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
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Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?
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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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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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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
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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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He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
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Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
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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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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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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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