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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

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When trouble ends even troubles please.

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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

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What you cannot enforce, do not command.

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

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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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To revive sorrow is cruel.

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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

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To err from the right path is common to mankind.

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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

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Time eases all things.

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

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

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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk.

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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

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There is no success without hardship.

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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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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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