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.
MENANDERIn many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say, “Know others.”
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
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Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
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Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
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The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
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By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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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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He who labors diligently need never despair.
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