"I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."
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"Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me."
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"That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far."
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"I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up."
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"Caesar's wife should be above suspicion."
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"When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them."
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"Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into."
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"So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us."
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"Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale."
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"He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war."
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"What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?"
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"Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less."
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"Reason speaks and feeling bites"
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"To please the many is to displease the wise."
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"Instead of using medicine, better fast today."
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"Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men."
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"Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted."
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"Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises."
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"The authors of great evils know best how to remove them."
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"If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax"
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