"When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish."
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"Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's."
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"The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration."
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"Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within."
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"Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse."
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"The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds."
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"When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings."
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"Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions."
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"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."
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"Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for."
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"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
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"Beauty is the flower of virtue."
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"Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities."
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"Words will build no walls."
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"When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."
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"Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces."
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"He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself"
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"Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave."
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"Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures."
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"The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants."
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