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The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
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Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
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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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Custom is almost a second nature.
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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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Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
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When the candles are out all women are fair.
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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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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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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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Either is both, and Both is neither.
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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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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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As Meander says, For our mind is God and as Heraclitus, Man's genius is a deity.
Plutarch
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
Plutarch
Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
Plutarch
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.
Plutarch
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
Plutarch
Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
Plutarch
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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