If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
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But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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My men have become women, but the women men.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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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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