"Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief."
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"If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool."
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"Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune."
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"The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent."
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"Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly."
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"Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man."
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"It is best to live however one can be."
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"Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice."
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"As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see."
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"If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds."
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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."
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"When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act."
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"A prudent man should neglect no circumstances."
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"Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows."
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"What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him."
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"How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it."
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"Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal."
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"For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness."
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"We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint."
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"One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite."
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