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01c. 491 BC

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

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02c. 491 BC

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

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03c. 491 BC

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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04c. 491 BC

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

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05c. 491 BC

God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.

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06c. 491 BC

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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07c. 491 BC

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.

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08c. 491 BC

Exiles feed on hope.

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09c. 491 BC

Success is man's god.

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10c. 491 BC

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."

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11c. 491 BC

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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12c. 491 BC

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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13c. 491 BC

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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14c. 491 BC

Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

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15c. 491 BC

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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16Undated

Success! to thee, as to a god, men bend the knee.

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17Undated

But Justice shines in smoky cottages, and honors the pious. Leaving with averted eyes the gorgeous glare obtained by polluted hands, she is wont to draw nigh to holiness, not reverencing wealth when falsely stamped with praise, and assigning each deed its righteous doom.

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18Undated

Alas for the fate of men! Even in the midst of the highest prosperity a shadow may overturn them; but if they be in adverse fortune a moistened sponge can blot out the picture.

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19Undated

It is always in season for old men to learn.

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