Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
MENANDERIn many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say, “Know others.”
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By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
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Silence is often advantageous.
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All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
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It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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Why should he who is scared be careful?
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In many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say, “Know others.”
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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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A man that runs away may fight again.
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