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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
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It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
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All men have need of the gods.
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
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By their own follies they perished, the fools.
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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
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The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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