"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always."
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"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do."
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"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."
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"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds."
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"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."
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"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune."
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"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace."
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"There is a time when even justice brings harm."
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"For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best."
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"War loves to seek its victims in the young."
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"It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers."
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"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."
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"Let a man nobly live or nobly die."
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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."
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"To women silence gives their proper grace."
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"A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse."
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"To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part."
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"It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil."
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"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."
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"A man is nothing but breath and shadow."
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