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"A man growing old becomes a child again."

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"No lie ever reaches old age."

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

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"Not even old age knows how to love death."

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"Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day."

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"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

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"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."

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"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

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"It is best to live however one can be."

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"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that."

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night."

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"Not even old age knows how to love death."

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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

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

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"It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm."

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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

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"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

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"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."

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"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

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"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

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"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

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"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

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"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."

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"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

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"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

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"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."

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"Always desire to learn something useful."

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"Who seeks shall find."

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"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."

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"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

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"Success is dependent on effort."

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"There is no success without hardship."

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"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

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"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."

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"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth."

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"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

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"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

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"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

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"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

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"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words."

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"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

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"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."

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"Silence is an ornament for women."

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"Evil gains work their punishment."

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"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

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