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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.
The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
From Themistocles began the saying, "He is a second Hercules."
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?
The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.