- Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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- Culture makes all men gentle.
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- Deus ex machina A god from the machine
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- He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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- He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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- He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.
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- I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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- In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate.
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- It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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- Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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- No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*
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- Nothing is more useful than silence.
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- Riches cover a multitude of woes.
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- The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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- The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.
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- The man who runs may fight again.
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- The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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- The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
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- There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil.
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- There is nothing more daring than ignorance.
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- When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash.
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- Whom the gods love dies young.
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- Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense.
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