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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Honor Love Possession Shady
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
In soft regions are born soft men.
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Born Life Men
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
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Happiness Inspirational Life Live Reflection Thinking
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People Time
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength

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