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No enemy is worse than bad advice.

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When trouble ends even troubles please.

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Success is dependent on effort.

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Silence is an ornament for women.

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

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You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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A man growing old becomes a child again.

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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

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It is best to live however one can be.

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

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God's dice always have a lucky roll.

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

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Who seeks shall find.

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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

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For the dead there are no more toils.

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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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Evil counsel travels fast.

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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

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Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

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