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An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]
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Athletics have become professionalized.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders opinion, fools.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death
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The end of life is to be like unto God and the soul following God, will be like unto Him He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.
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All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
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If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
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Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
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I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.
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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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