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A good deed hidden in silence dies.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.

Envy bestrides praise.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Even genius is tied to profit.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

The present will not long endure.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

The test of any man lies in action.

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another's we soon cease to grieve.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.