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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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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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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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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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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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When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
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For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
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The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. Thy words, said he, Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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