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- Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable…
- Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
- All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
- Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known,…
- A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
- The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
- Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
- Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
- Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from…
- Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
- We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
- It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
- Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
- A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
- For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
- Laziness is the mother of all evils.
- I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
- Opportunity has power over all things.
- To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
- Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
- It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
- Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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