Euripides quote: "Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right."

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
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There is the sky, which is all men's together.
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
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Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
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The wavering mind is but a base possession.
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
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The language of truth is simple.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
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It is change; all yields its place and goes.
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Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
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Authority is never without hate.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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Much effort, much prosperity.
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There is the sky, which is all men's together.
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
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To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
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To generous souls every task is noble.
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Noble fathers have noble children.
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
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The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
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There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
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Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
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Cleverness is not wisdom
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
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God helps him who strives hard.
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The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
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Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
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Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
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There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
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You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
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They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
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For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
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Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
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Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
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What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
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Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
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This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
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[Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
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O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
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Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
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The God knows when to smile.
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O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
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Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
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My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
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Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
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Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
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Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
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He who believes needs no explanation.
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He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
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Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
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Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
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A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
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Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
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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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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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The wisest men follow their own direction.
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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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Youth holds no society with grief.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
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Leave no stone unturned.
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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
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I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
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Time cancels young pain.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble...
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
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Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
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Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
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What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
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I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
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If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
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For a sickness, love is the healthiest
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
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Prosperity is full of friends.
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Unhappiness remembering happiness.
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The wisest men follow their own direction
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Often a noble face hides filthy ways
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Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
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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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There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
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All is change; all yields its place and goes
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The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
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If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
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The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
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Money is the wise man's religion
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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No one is happy all his life long.
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
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The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
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It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
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Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

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Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

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