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courage is the gift of character
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Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.
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Old loves are dropped when new ones come
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Gods often contradict our fondest expectations. What we anticipate does not come to pass. What we don't expect some god finds a way to make it happen. So with this story
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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
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Woman is woman's natural ally.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
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I sacrifice to no god save myself -- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
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Man's most valuable traitis a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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Who can decide a plea or judge a speech until he has heard plainly from both sides?
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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
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I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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Authority is never without hate.
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Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
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A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
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Who knows but life be that which men call death,And death what men call life?
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Silence is an answer in the eyes of the wise.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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For nothing is there more sweet unto an aged father than a daughter
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
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Dishonour will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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