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As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan.
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Did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus?
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The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse."
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Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
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Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
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In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises.
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Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."
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He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
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The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.
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Custom is almost a second nature.
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Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
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That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."
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Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
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The great god Pan is dead.
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I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.
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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
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Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
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The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward.
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Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."
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Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.
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As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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