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"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
"Leave no stone unturned."
"You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard."
"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."
"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts."
"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
"Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves."
"For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father."
"He is not a lover who does not love forever."
"The wisest men follow their own direction."
"Where there is no wine there is no love."
"Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much."
"No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform."
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
"God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect."
"The language of truth is simple."
"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
"Among mortals second thoughts are wisest."
"In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom."