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A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

A lie never lives to be old.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

Always desire to learn something useful

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Brave hearts do not back down back off.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

Despair often breeds disease.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.