Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.


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Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.'
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
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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.
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES
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...
EURIPIDES
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...
EURIPIDES
Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES
What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
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...
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES
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
EURIPIDES
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
EURIPIDES
All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES
The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES
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.
EURIPIDES
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES
No one is happy all his life long.
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES
The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES
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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