Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AESCHYLUSGod’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
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