Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
EURIPIDESThe good and wise lead quite lives.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
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Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.
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Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
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He who believes needs no explanation.
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Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
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Action achieves more than words.
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