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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

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Silence is an ornament for women.

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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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Better not to exist than live basely.

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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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Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

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Success is dependent on effort.

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To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

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Not even Ares battles against necessity.

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Who seeks shall find.

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There is no success without hardship.

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

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