"Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man."
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"The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse."
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"Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies."
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"Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment."
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"The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater."
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"To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."
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"One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No."
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"After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
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"When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back."
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"As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity."
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"Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth."
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"Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
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"Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil."
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"Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast."
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"Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping."
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"For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them."
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"Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof."
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"Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment."
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"A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic.""
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"Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]"
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