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A lie never lives to be old.  
A short saying often contains much wisdom.  
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.  
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.  
For the dead there are no more toils.  
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the...  
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.  
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou ...  
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they'...  
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.  
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.  
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.  
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.  
No enemy is worse than bad advice.  
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.  
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is lov...  
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.  
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.  
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.  
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.  
Success is dependent on effort.   Success
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.  
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.  
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all ...  
There is a point at which even justice does injury.  
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done a...  
There is no success without hardship.  
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscien...  
They command us, though they speak no words.  
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.  
To him who is in fear everything rustles.  
What you cannot enforce, do not command!  
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathin...  
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smil...  
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.  
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.  
Without labor nothing prospers.  
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that cross...