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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.
To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.
Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.