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- If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
- It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
- Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
- If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
- Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
- Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
- Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can,…
- Great Time makes all things dim.
- In season, all is good.
- Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
- All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
- Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
- One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
- I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
- For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
- All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
- When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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