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Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.