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If We Could Be Twice Young And Twice Old We Could Correct All Our Mistakes.

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If We Could Be Twice Young And Twice Old We Could Correct All Our Mistakes.

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The Lucky Person Passes For A Genius.

Among Mortals Second Thoughts Are Wisest.

Second Thoughts

Do Not Grieve So Much For A Husband Lost That It Wastes Away Your Life.

Human Excellence Means Nothing Unless It Works With The Consent Of God.

Who Dares Not Speak His Free Thoughts Is A Slave.

There Is No Evil As Terrible As A Woman.

This Is What It Means To Be A Slave; To Be Abused And Bear It; Compelled By Violence To Suffer Wrong.

Numbers Are A Fearful Thing.

The God Knows When To Smile.

No One Is Truly Free, They Are A Slave To Wealth, Fortune, The Law, Or Other People Restraining Them From Acting According To Their Will.

Why Do We Make So Much Of Knowledge, Struggle So Hard To Get Some Little Skill Not Worth The Effort?

Love Must Not Touch The Marrow Of The Soul. Our Affections Must Be Breakable Chains That We Can Cast Them Off Or Tighten Them.

If We Could Be Twice Young And Twice Old We Could Correct All Our Mistakes.

The Fountains Of Sacred Rivers Flow Upwards (i.e., Everything Is Turned Topsy Turvy).

May He Die With No Joy At His End, The Man Who Won't Be Troubled To Unlock The Keys Of His Heart And Make A Friend.

Reason Can Wrestle And Overthrow Terror.

Zeus Hates Busybodies And Those Who Do Too Much.

The Fiercest Anger Of All, The Most Incurable, Is That Which Rages In The Place Of Dearest Love.

Anger And Bitterness

He Who Can Properly Summarize Many Ideas In A Brief Statement, Is A Wise Man.

Let No One Think Of Me That I Am Humble Or Weak Or Passive; Let Them Understand I Am Of A Different Kind: Dangerous To My Enemies, Loyal To My Friends. To Such A Life Glory Belongs.

Time Will Unveil All Things To Posterity.

Mankind Led On By Gods Err All Too Easily.

When A Good Man Is Hurt, All Who Would Be Called Good Must Suffer With Him.

There Is One Thing Alone That Stands The Brunt Of Life Throughout Its Course; A Quiet Conscience.

Time Will Explain It All. He Is A Talker, And Needs No Questioning Before He Speaks.

The Man Who Knows When Not To Act Is Wise. To My Mind Bravery If Forethought.

If I Could Remake The World, I'd Banish Women, Send Them Away With All Their Trouble. Then Children Would Come From A Purer Source.

Oftener Than Not The Old Are Uncontrollable; Their Tempers Make Them Difficult To Deal With.

Let My Heart Be Wise. It Is The Gods' Best Gift.

Pray The Gods Do Not Envy Your Happiness!

Surely Again, To Heal Men's Wounds By Music's Spell.

Alas!-but Why Alas? It Is The Lot Of Mortality We Experience.

Love's All In All To Women.

I Have Found Power In The Mysteries Of Thought.

Time Will Cure You, But Now Is Your Grief Still Young.

Men Hate The Haughty Of Heart Who Will Not Be The Friend Of Every Man.

The Man Whom Heaven Helps Has Friends Enough.

Too Much Zeal Offends Where Indirection Works.

There Is No Worse Evil Than A Bad Woman; And Nothing Has Ever Been Produced Better Than A Good One.

Soon All Of You Immortals Will Be As Dead As We Are! Come On Then, What Are You Waiting For? Have You Run Out Of Thunderbolts?

Forgive, Son; Men Are Men; They Needs Must Err.

Those Whom God Wishes To Destroy, He First Makes Mad.

Humility, A Sense Of Reverence Before The Sons Of Heaven - Of All The Prizes That A Mortal Man Might Win, These, I Say, Are Wisest; These Are Best.

In My Opinion, The Unjust Man Whose Tongue Is Full Of Glozing Rhetoric, Merits The Heaviest Punishment; Vaunting That He Can With His Tongue Gloze Over Injustice, He Dares To Act Wickedly, Yet He Is Not Over-wise.

Terrible Is The Force Of The Waves Of Sea, Terrible Is The Rush Of The River And The Blasts Of Hot Fire, And Terrible Are A Thousand Other Things; But None Is Such A Terrible Evil As Woman.

There Is Desire In Those Who Love To Hear About Their Loved Ones' Pains.

There Seems To Be Some Pleasure For Women In Sick Talk Of One Another.

Enjoy Yourself, Drink, Call The Life You Live Today Your Own; But Only That, The Rest Belongs To Chance.

Had I Succeeded Well, I Had Been Reckoned Amongst The Wise; Our Minds Are So Disposed To Judge From The Event.

Who Cannot Open An Honest Mind No Friend Will He Be Of Mine.

Ill-gotten Wealth Is Never Stable.

The Gift Of A Bad Man Can Bring No Good.

To Every Man, Even Though He Be A Slave, The Light Of Heaven Is Sweet.

Never Say That Marriage Has More Of Joy Than Pain.

Life Is A Short Affair; We Should Try To Make It Smooth, And Free From Strife.

Nothing Happens To Man Without The Permission Of God.

For The Weariest Road That Man May Wend Is Forth Fromn The Home Of His Father.

Cleverness Is Not Wisdom. And Not To Think Mortal Thoughts Is To See Few Days.

The Meanest Life Is Better Than The Most Glorious Death.

There Is No Harbor Of Peace From The Changing Waves Of Joy And Despair.

It Is A Strange Form Of Anger, Difficult To Cure, When Two Friends Turn Upon Each Other In Hatred.

A Slave Is He Who Cannot Speak His Thoughts.

Worse Than A True Evil Is It To Bear The Burden Of Faults That Are Not Truly Yours.

Necessity Is Harsh. Fate Has No Reprieve.

One Does Nothing Who Tries To Console A Despondent Person With Word. A Friend Is One Who Aids With Deeds At A Critical Time When Deeds Are Called For.

We Know The Good, We Apprehend It Clearly; But We Can't Bring It To Achievement.

Much Effort, Much Prosperity.

We Look For Good On Earth And Cannot Recognize It When Met.

I Care For Riches, To Make Gifts To Friends, Or Lead A Sick Man Back To Health With Ease And Plenty. Else Small Aid Is Wealth For Daily Gladness; Once A Man Be Done With Hunger, Rich And Poor Are All As One.

Waste No Tears Over The Griefs Of Yesterday.

Ares (the God Of War) Hates Those Who Hesitate.

None Can Hold Fortune Still And Make It Last.

Happiness Is Brief. It Will Not Stay. God Batters At Its Sails.

If There Are None [gods], All Our Toil Is Without Meaning.

But Woe To Him, Who Left To Moan, Reviews The Hours Of Brightness Gone.

Of All Things Upon Earth That Bleed And Grow, A Herb Most Bruised Is Woman.

What Can We Take On Trust In This Uncertain Life? Happiness, Greatness, Pride - Nothing Is Secure, Nothing Keeps.

A Second Wife Is Hateful To The Children Of The First; A Viper Is Not More Hateful.

This Is True Liberty, When Free-born Men, Having To Advise The Public, May Speak Free.

When The Anger Of The Gods Is Incurred, Wealth Or Power Only Bring More Devastating Punishment.

Old Age Is Not A Total Misery. Experience Helps.

Happy Is It To Place A Daughter; Yet It Pains A Father's Heart When He Delivers To Another's House A Child, The Object Of His Tender Care.

Luckier Than One's Neighbor, But Still Not Happy.

Blood Streams In Sacrifice; Yet Anguish Finds No Cure.

Who Knoweth If To Die Be But To Live, And That Called Life By Mortals Be But Death?

Nothing Is Hopeless; We Must Hope For Everything.

When Good Men Die Their Goodness Does Not Perish, But Lives Though They Are Gone. As For The Bad, All That Was Theirs Dies And Is Buried With Them.

For With Slight Efforts How Should We Obtain Great Results? It Is Foolish Even To Desire It.

The Divine Power Moves With Difficulty, But At The Same Time Surely.

To A Father Waxing Old, Nothing Is Dearer Than A Daughter; Sons Have Spirits Of A Higher Pitch, But Less Inclined To Endearing Fondness.

When Someone Isn't Seen For A Long Time, Well, Folk Soon Begin To Imagine The Worst.

Who Then Will Dare To Say I'm Weak Or Timid? No, They'll Say I'm Loyal As A Friend, Ruthless As A Foe, So Much Like A Hero Destined For Glory.

A Wretched Child Is He Who Does Not Return His Parents' Care.

Friendship Doubles Your Joys, And Divides Your Sorrows.

Human Misery Must Somewhere Have A Stop; There Is No Wind That Always Blows A Storm.

Many A Maiden, With White Feet Glancing Light As Air, Made Happy Music Through The Gloom.

There Is No Benefit In The Gifts Of A Bad Man.

Short Is The Joy That Guilty Pleasure Brings.

Today Is The Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday. Tragedy Isn't Getting Something Or Failure To Get It; It's Losing Something You Already Have. Waste Not Fresh Tears Over Old Griefs.

How Sweet To Remember The Trouble That Is Past.

To Persevere, Trusting In What Hopes He Has, Is Courage In A Man.

The Mob Gets Out Of Hand, Runs Wild, Worse Than Raging Fire, While The Man Who Stands Apart Is Called A Coward.

Those Whose Cause Is Just Will Never Lack Good Arguments.

I Would Prefer As Friend A Good Man Ignorant Than One More Clever Who Is Evil Too.

The Life Of Men Is Painful.

Character Is "a Stamp Of Good Repute On A Person."

Mankind . . . Possesses Two Supreme Blessings. First Of These Is The Goddess Demeter, Or Earth Whichever Name You Choose To Call Her By. It Was She Who Gave To Man His Nourishment Of Grain. But After Her There Came The Son Of Semele, Who Matched Her Present By Inventing Liquid Wine As His Gift To Man. For Filled With That Good Gift, Suffering Mankind Forgets Its Grief; From It Comes Sleep; With It Oblivion Of The Troubles Of The Day. There Is No Other Medicine For Misery.

All Men Know Their Children Mean More Than Life.

If One Must Do A Wrong, It's Best To Do It Pursuing Power-otherwise, Let's Have Virtue.

Leave No Stone Untamed.

It Is Better That We Live Ever So Miserably Than Die In Glory.

God In Heaven Has Dominion Over So Many Events. He Can Frustrate What Seems Inevitable, And Bring To Pass The Thing That You Least Expect.

What Else Goes Wrong For A Woman-except Her Marriage?

Neither Earth Nor Ocean Produces A Creature As Savage And Monstrous As Woman.

In Adverse Hours The Friendship Of The Good Shines Most; Each Prosperous Day Commands Its Friends.

They Who Are Sad Find Somehow Sweetness In Tears.

A Sharp-tempered Woman, Or, For That Matter, A Man, Is Easier To Deal With Than The Clever Type Who Holds Her Tongue.

A Man's Most Valuable Trait Is A Judicious Sense Of What Not To Believe.

When Good Men Die Their Goodness Does Not Perish.

Old Men's Prayers For Death Are Lying Prayers, In Which They Abuse Old Age And Long Extent Of Life. But When Death Draws Near, Not One Is Willing To Die, And Age No Longer Is A Burden To Them.

Of Mortals There Is No One Who Is Happy. If Wealth Flows In Upon One, One May Be Perhaps Luckier Than One's Neighbor, But Still Not Happy.

Better A Serpent Than A Stepmother!

What Greater Grief Than The Loss Of One's Native Land.

Cleverness Is Not Wisdom.

Common Sense Is The Best Prophet.

That Mortal Is A Fool Who, Prospering, Thinks His Life Has Any Strong Foundation; Since Our Fortune's Course Of Action Is The Reeling Way A Madman Takes, And No One Person Is Ever Happy All The Time.

The Unrighteous Are Never Really Fortunate.

I Would Rather Die On My Feet Than Live On My Knees.

Delight In Splendor Is No More Than Happiness With Little: For Both Have Their Appeal.

It's The Wise Man Who Stays Home When He's Drunk.

Since Luck's A Nine Days' Wonder, Wait Their End.

Vengeance Comes Not Slowly Either Upon You Or Any Other Wicked Man, But Steals Silently And Imperceptibly, Placing Its Foot On The Bad.

When Roused To Rage The Maddening Populace Storms, Their Fury, Like A Rolling Flame, Bursts Forth Unquenchable; But Give Its Violence Ways, It Spends Itself, And As Its Force Abates, Learns To Obey And Yields It To Your Will.

Time Will Explain It All. Waste No Tears Over The Griefs Of Yesterday. One Loyal Friend Is Worth Ten Thousand Relatives. Love Is All We Have, The Only Way That Each Can Help The Other. Whoso Neglects Learning In His Youth, Loses The Past And Is Dead For The Future.

The Daughters Of Sparta Are Never At Home! They Mingle With The Young Men In Wrestling Matches.

The New-come Stepmother Hates The Children Born To A First Wife.

The Brave Venture Anything.

Out Of Some Little Thing, Too Free A Tongue Can Make An Outrageous Wrangle.

Disaster Appears, To Crush One Man Now, But Afterward Another.

Sound Judgement, With Discernment Is The Best Of Seers

For No Mortal Ever Attains To Blessedness. One May Be Luckier Than Another When Wealth Flows His Way, But Blessed Never.

Let Mortal Man Keep To His Own Mortality, And Not Expect Too Much.

Power Gives No Purchase To The Hand, It Will Not Hold, Soon Perishes, And Greatness Goes.

O Lady, Nobility Is Thine, And Thy Form Is The Reflection Of Thy Nature!

Mobs In Their Emotions Are Much Like Children, Subject To The Same Tantrums And Fits Of Fury.

The Worst, The Least Curable Hatred Is That Which Has Superseded Deep Love.

The Nobly Born Must Nobly Meet His Fate.

Ten Soldiers Wisely Led Will Beat A Hundred Without A Head.

Funny Leadership

There Is Just One Life For Each Of Us: Our Own.

I Hate It In Friends When They Come Too Late To Help.

What Anger Worse Or Slower To Abate Then Lovers Love When It Turns To Hate.

The Best Of Seers Is He Who Guesses Well.

The Little Done Doth Vanish To The Mind Which Forward Sees How Much Remains To Do.

A Coward Turns Away, But A Brave Man's Choice Is Danger.

Dead Men Have No Victory.

Life Is Short; This Being So, Who Would Pursue Great Things And Not Bear With What Is At Hand? These Are The Ways Of Madmen And Men Of Evil Counsel, At Least In My Judgment.

If Your Life At Night Is Good, You Think You Have Everything.

Real Friendship Is Shown In Times Of Trouble; Prosperity Is Full Of Friends.

Arm Yourself, My Heart: The Thing That You Must Do Is Fearful, Yet Inevitable.

A Woman Should Be Good For Everything At Home, But Abroad Good For Nothing.

The Wife Should Yield In All Things To Her Lord

Dishonor Will Not Trouble Me, Once I Am Dead.

The Man Who Glories In His Luck May Be Overthrown By Destiny.

Fortune Always Will Confer An Aura Of Worth, Unworthily; And In This World The Lucky Person Passes For A Genius.

Those Who Look For Filth, Can Find It At The Height Of Noon.

Men Honor Property Above All Else; It Has The Greatest Power In Human Life.

A Man Who Has Been In Danger, When He Comes Out Of It Forgets His Fears, And Sometimes He Forgets His Promises.

Delusive Hope Still Points To Distant Good.

Sanity Brings Pain But Madness Is A Vile Thing.

Do We, Holding That The Gods Exist, Deceive Ourselves With Insubstantial Dreams And Lies, While Random Careless Chance And Change Alone Control The World?

He Who Believes Needs No Explanation.

God Helps Him Who Strives Hard.

The Way Of God Is Complex, He Is Hard For Us To Predict. He Moves The Pieces And They Come Somehow Into A Kind Of Order.

I Have Found Nothing Stronger Than Necessity.

In Goodness There Are All Kinds Of Wisdom.

Oh, What A Power Is Motherhood, Possessing A Potent Spell. Love, Light, Blessings

To The Fool, He Who Speaks Wisdom Will Sound Foolish.

If Some Appalling Disaster Befalls, There's Always A Way For The Rich.

There Is In The Worst Of Fortune The Best Of Chances For A Happy Change.

Only A Madman Would Give Good For Evil

The Greatest Pleasure Of Life Is Love.

Every Man Is Like The Company He Wont To Keep.

There Is As Much Confusion In The World Of The Gods As In Ours.

Experience, Travel - These Are An Education In Themselves.

Inspirational Life

The Brave Endure Their Labors, The Cowardly Are Worth The Cowards Nothing At All.

Judge A Tree From Its Fruit, Not From Its Leaves.

If God Is Truly God, He Is Perfect, Lacking Nothing.

Your Very Silence Shows You Agree.

To Die With Glory, If One Has To Die At All, Is Still, I Think, Pain For The Dier.

All Is Change; All Yields Its Place And Goes.

Authority Is Never Without Hate.

But Learn That To Die Is A Debt We Must All Pay.

This Is Slavery, Not To Speak One's Thought.

Alas, How Right The Ancient Saying Is: We, Who Are Old, Are Nothing Else But Noise And Shape. Like Mimicries Of Dreams We Go, And Have No Wits, Although We Think Us Wise.

Do Not Mistake The Rule Of Force For True Power. Men Are Not Shaped By Force.

Chance Fights Ever On The Side Of The Prudent.

It Is Said That Gifts Persuade Even The Gods.

In Case Of Dissension, Never Dare To Judge Till You've Heard The Other Side.

The Gods Have Sent Medicines For The Venom Of Serpents, But There Is No Medicine For A Bad Woman. She Is More Noxious Than The Viper, Or Than Fire Itself.

Impudence Is The Worst Of All Human Diseases.

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