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Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Everything is ideal to its parent.
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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
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The gods love those of ordered soul.
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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Not even old age knows how to love death.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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