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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles
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When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
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I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
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The end excuses any evil.
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Evil gains work their punishment.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.
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Nobody loves life like an old man.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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