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Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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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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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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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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Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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Always desire to learn something useful
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Not even Ares battles against necessity.
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Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.
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If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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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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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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