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- By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour.…
- The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures
- The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but…
- Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
- One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.
- These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
- Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
- Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of…
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