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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a ...

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We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

The coward despairs.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be belov...

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Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy chan...

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By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work,...

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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not...

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...

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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of li...

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Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us...

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There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

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

The good and wise lead quite lives

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.

Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

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

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind'...

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Hippolytus

All is change all yields its place and goes.

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chan...

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...

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Men are men they needs must err.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

Money is the wise man's religion.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fort...

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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Noble fathers have noble children.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Leave no stone unturned.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of lif...

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What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his...

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Helen

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as...

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or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much...

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

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

In childbirth grief begins.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who thi...

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Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer...

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Euripides

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Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek playwright.More