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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

Account no man happy till he dies.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Action achieves more than words.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

An ally need not own the land he helps.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Common sense is the best prophet.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Dead men have no victory.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Enough is abundance to the wise.