"I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer."
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"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
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"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"
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"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."
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"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness."
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"Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always."
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"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."
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"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
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"You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening."
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"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied."
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"A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him."
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"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."
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"But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it."
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"Opportunity has power over all things."
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"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
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"Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."
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"No man loves life like him that's growing old."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
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"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."
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