"A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well."
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"Time is the best preserver of righteous men."
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"To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve."
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"To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied."
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"If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable."
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"For lawless joys a bitter ending waits."
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"When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise."
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"May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things."
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"Envy, the attendant of the empty mind."
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"Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching."
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"With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us."
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"Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth."
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"Unsung, the noblest deed will die."
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"We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more."
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"It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high."
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"The present will not long endure."
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"The test of any man lies in action."
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"The forehead of every work must shine from afar."
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"Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth."
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"Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes."
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