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/ page 1117 of 1205 /Not even old age knows how to love death.
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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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For the dead there are no more toils.
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
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Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
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Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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