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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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Silence is an answer to a wise man.
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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made for they are the substantial part of the world like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
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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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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
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Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, She can choose best, and so took both away with him.
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
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Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.
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It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
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To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
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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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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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