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For the dead there are no more toils.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

There is no success without hardship.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Who seeks shall find.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

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

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

A lie never lives to be old.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Without labor nothing prospers.

Success is dependent on effort.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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