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In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection
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Water is the best of all things.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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11.
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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15.
Though God alone never tastes woe,
Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him,
Who conquers with hand or swift foot
And wins the greatest of prizes
By steadfastness and strength.
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16.
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
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17.
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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18.
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
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19.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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20.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
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21.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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22.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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24.
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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29.
May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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30.
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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31.
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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32.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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The present will not long endure.
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It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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39.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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40.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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41.
Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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42.
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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43.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
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44.
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
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Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?
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I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
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Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
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