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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
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Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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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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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
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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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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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It is best to live however one can be.
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