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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.
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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
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For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
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