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Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.
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From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."
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Themistocles said to Antiphales, "Time, young man, has taught us both a lesson".
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but those who are careless of accuracy in small things soon begin to neglect the most important.
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I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.
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Perish those who suspect those men of doing or enduring anything base."
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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
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For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.
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And this," said Caesar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do."
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Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortunes in your boat.
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
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For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
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It is a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.
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According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.
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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.
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Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
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'T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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When the candles are out all women are fair.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."
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These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade."
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Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone."
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King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
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Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."
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Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.
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He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs.
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Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.
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Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young."
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The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
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I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places."
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When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men."
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
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It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
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Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain."
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Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
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Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
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