How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDERMarriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
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The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
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Silence is often advantageous.
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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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The workman still is greater than his work.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.
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