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You Will Not Achieve Happiness If You Don't Work Hard; And It's A Shame Not To Want To Work Hard.

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You Will Not Achieve Happiness If You Don't Work Hard; And It's A Shame Not To Want To Work Hard.

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None Wise Dares Hopeless Venture.

Oh, What A Vileness Human Beauty Is; Corroding, Corrupting Everything It Touches.

The Good And The Wise Lead Quiet Lives.

The Variety Of All Things Forms A Pleasure.

My Hands Are Clean, But My Heart Has Somewhat Of Impurity.

Woman Is Woman's Natural Ally.

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

Children Are Sweet As The Buds In Spring, But I've Noticed That Those Who Have Them Have Nothing But Trouble All Their Lives.

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

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

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

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

Virtue Proceeds Through Effort.

It's Folly That Women Measure Their Happiness With The Pleasures Of The Bed, But They Do. And When The Pleasure Cools Or Their Man Goes Missing, All They Once Lived For Turns Dark And Hateful.

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

Where There Is No Wine There Is No Love.

Bottles Of Wine

Only A Madman Would Give Good For Evil

It Is A Good Thing To Be Rich And Strong, But It Is A Better Thing To Be Loved.

Prepare Yourselves For The Roaring Voice Of The God Of Joy!

Young Man, Two Are The Forces Most Precious To Mankind. The First Is Demeter, The Goddess. She Is The Earth -- Or Any Name You Wish To Call Her -- And She Sustains Humanity With Solid Food. Next Came Dionysus, The Son Of The Virgin, Bringing The Counterpart To Bread: Wine And The Blessings Of Life's Flowing Juices. His Blood, The Blood Of The Grape, Lightens The Burden Of Our Mortal Misery. Though Himself A God, It Is His Blood We Pour Out To Offer Thanks To The Gods. And Through Him, We Are Blessed.

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

Question Everything. Learn Something. Answer Nothing.

Questions And Answers

Answering Questions

A Change Is Always Nice.

Both To The Rich And Poor, Wine Is The Happy Antidote For Sorrow.

No One Can Confidently Say That He Will Still Be Living Tomorrow.

He Is Not A Lover Who Does Not Love Forever.

Your Worst Enemy Becomes Your Best Friend, Once He's Underground.

Your Best Friend

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

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

The Nobly Born Must Nobly Meet His Fate.

Good And Bad May Not Be Dissevered; There Is, As There Should Be, A Commingling.

The Stillest Tongue Can Be The Truest Friend.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Oh, Trebly Blest The Placid Lot Of Those Whose Hearth Foundations Are In Pure Love Laid, Where Husband's Breast With Tempered Ardor Glows, And Wife, Oft Mother, Is In Heart A Maid!

The Wisest Men Follow Their Own Direction.

There Is Safety In Numbers.

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

Those Who Are Held Wise Among Men And Who Search The Reasons Of Things, Are Those Who Bring The Most Sorrow On Themselves.

It Would Not Be Better If Men Got What They Wanted.

Do Not Consider Painful What Is Good For You.

I Know Indeed What Evil I Intend To Do, But Stronger Than All My Afterthoughts Is My Fury, Fury That Brings Upon Mortals The Greatest Evils.

Circumstances Rule Men And Not Men Rule Circumstances.

One Loyal Friend Is Worth Ten Thousand Relatives.

You Will Not Achieve Happiness If You Don't Work Hard; And It's A Shame Not To Want To Work Hard.

High Honors Are Sweet To A Man's Heart, But Ever They Stand Close To The Brink Of Grief.

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

We Must Take Care Of Our Minds Because We Cannot Benefit From Beauty When Our Brains Are Missing.

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

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

Pray The Gods Do Not Envy Your Happiness!

Time Cancels Young Pain.

To The Ignorant, Even The Words Of Wise Seem Foolishness.

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.

In This World Second Thoughts, It Seems, Are Best.

Second Thoughts

An Ally Need Not Own The Land He Helps.

Let A Man Accept His Destiny, No Pity And No Tears.

Among Mortals Second Thoughts Are Wisest.

Second Thoughts

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

Evil Men By Their Own Nature Cannot Ever Prosper.

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.

I Envy That Man Who Passes Through Life Safely, To The World And Fame Unknown.

Anger Exceeding Limits Causes Fear And Excessive Kindness Eliminates Respect.

Experience, Travel - These Are An Education In Themselves.

Inspirational Life

Ignorance Of One's Misfortunes Is Clear Gain.

Joint Undertakings Stand A Better Chance When They Benefit Both Sides.

Never Say That Marriage Has More Of Joy Than Pain.

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

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

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

There Is Nothing Like The Sight Of An Old Enemy Down On His Luck.

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.

If The Gods Do Evil Then They Are Not Gods.

Money Is Far More Persuasive Than Logical Arguments.

Logical Arguments

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

Love's All In All To Women.

The Best Prophet Is Common Sense, Our Native Wit.

Happy The Man Who From The Sea Escapes The Storm And Finds Harbor.

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

What Is God, What Is Not God, What Is Between Man And God, Who Shall Say?

The Man Whom Heaven Helps Has Friends Enough.

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

A Rare Spoil For A Man Is The Winning Of A Good Wife; Very Plentiful Are The Worthless Women.

Youth Holds No Society With Grief.

He Is Life's Liberating Force. He Is Release Of Limbs And Communion Through Dance. He Is Laughter, And Music In Flutes. He Is Repose From All Cares -- He Is Sleep! When His Blood Bursts From The Grape And Flows Across Tables Laid In His Honor To Fuse With Our Blood, He Gently, Gradually, Wraps Us In Shadows Of Ivy-cool Sleep.

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

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

Those Who Have Not, And Live In Want, Are A Menace, Ridden With Envy And Fooled By Demagogues.

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

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.

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

Poverty Possesses This Disease; Through Want It Teaches A Man Evil.

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

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

It Is Said That Gifts Persuade Even The Gods.

The Care Of God For Us Is A Great Thing, If A Man Believe It At Heart: It Plucks The Burden Of Sorrow From Him.

Wine Enlivens The Human Soul.

Men Make Their Choice: One Man Honors One God, And One Another.

Ill-gotten Wealth Is Never Stable.

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

Time Will Discover Everything To Posterity; It Is A Babbler, And Speaks Even When No Question Is Put.

Few Have Greater Riches Than The Joy That Comes To Us In Visions, In Dreams Which Nobody Can Take Away.

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

The Childless Escape Much Misery.

Death Is What Men Want When The Anguish Of Living Is More Than They Can Bear.

If A Man Rejoice Not In His Drinking, He Is Mad; For In Drinking It's Possible ... To Fondle Breasts, And To Caress Well Tended Locks, And There Is Dancing Withal, And Oblivion Of Woe.

Everyone Asks If A Man Is Rich, No One If He Is Good.

Who Knows But Life Be That Which Men Call Death, And Death What Men Call Life?

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

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

Ten Thousand Men Possess Ten Thousand Hopes.

The Brave Venture Anything.

Learned We May Be With Another Man's Learning: We Can Only Be Wise With Wisdom Of Our Own: [i Hate A Sage Who Is Not Wise For Himself]

Rightness Of Judgment Is Bitterness To The Heart.

Fate Finds For Every Man; His Share Of Misery.

Those Whose Cause Is Just Will Never Lack Good Arguments.

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

God Hates Violence. He Has Ordained That All Men Fairly Possess Their Property, Not Seize It.

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.

The Day Is For Honest Men, The Night For Thieves.

Stronger Than Lover's Love Is Lover's Hate. Incurable, In Each, The Wounds They Make.

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

No Man On Earth Is Truly Free, All Are Slaves Of Money Or Necessity. Public Opinion Or Fear Of Prosecution Forces Each One, Against His Conscience, To Conform.

My Tongue Swore, But My Mind Was Still Unpledged.

The Wife Should Yield In All Things To Her Lord

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

Women Don't Like Violence, But When Their Husbands Desert Them, That Is Different.

Sound Judgement, With Discernment Is The Best Of Seers

Waste No Tears Over The Griefs Of Yesterday.

The Gift Of A Bad Man Can Bring No Good.

Wealth Stays With Us A Little Moment If At All: Only Our Characters Are Steadfast, Not Our Gold.

When A Wise Man Chooses A Sane Basis For His Arguments, It Is No Great Task To Speak Well.

A Slave Is He Who Cannot Speak His Thoughts.

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

Account No Man Happy Till He Dies.

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

The Man Who Sticks It Out Against His Fate Shows Spirit, But The Spirit Of A Fool.

Light Be The Earth Upon You, Lightly Rest.

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

I Love The Old Way Best, The Simple Way Of Poison, Where We Too Are Strong As Men.

No One Is Happy All His Life Long.

To A Father Growing Old Nothing Is Dearer Than A Daughter.

Mother Daughter

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

Short Is The Joy That Guilty Pleasure Brings.

God Helps Him Who Strives Hard.

Do Not Mistake For Wisdom That Opinion Which May Rise From A Sick Mind.

I Sacrifice To No God Save Myself - And To My Belly, Greatest Of Deities.

The Same Man Cannot Well Be Skilled In Everything; Each Has His Special Excellence.

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

The Wavering Mind Is But A Base Possession.

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.

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

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

Pay Special Attention To Their Agony So I Might Take Some Pleasure.

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

The Best And Safest Thing Is To Keep A Balance In Your Life, Acknowledge The Great Powers Around Us And In Us. If You Can Do That, And Live That Way, You Are Really A Wise Man.

There Is Something In The Pang Of Change More Than The Heart Can Bear, Unhappiness Remembering Happiness.

What Good Can Come From Meeting Death With Tears? If A Man Is Sorry For Himself, He Doubles Death.

Again, A Smooth Answer, Signifying Nothing.

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

Friends Show Their Love In Times Of Trouble, Not In Happiness.

Danger Gleams Like Sunshine To A Brave Man's Eyes.

Dishonor Will Not Trouble Me, Once I Am Dead.

In Life, The Worst Disasters Come From Passion.

Whom The Gods Destroy, They First Make Mad.

O Virtue, I Have Followed You Through Life, And Find You At Last But A Shade.

In Misfortune, Which Friend Remains A Friend?

What We Look For Does Not Come To Pass; God Finds A Way For What None Foresaw.

The Man Is Happiest Who Lives From Day To Day And Asks No More, Garnering The Simple Goodness Of Life.

The Man That Isn't Jolly After Drinking Is Just A Drivelling Idiot, To My Thinking.

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

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

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

This Is Sweet To See Your Foe, Perish And Pay To Justice All He Owes.

Too Much Zeal Offends Where Indirection Works.

According To Success Do We Gain A Reputation For Judgement.

The Unrighteous Are Never Really Fortunate.

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

The Brash Unbridled Tongue, The Lawless Folly Of Fools, Will End In Pain. But The Life Of Wise Content Is Blest With Quietness, Escapes The Storm And Keeps Its House Secure.

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

They Who Are Sad Find Somehow Sweetness In Tears.

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.

How Dark Are All The Ways Of God To Man!

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

Sanity Brings Pain But Madness Is A Vile Thing.

Old Age Is Not A Total Misery. Experience Helps.

Cleverness Is Not Wisdom.

Happy The Man Whose Lot It Is To Know The Secrets Of The Earth. He Hastens Not To Work His Fellows Hurt By Unjust Deeds, But With Rapt Admiration Contemplates Immortal Nature's Ageless Harmony, And How And When The Order Came To Be.

The Ways Of The Gods Are Long, But In The End They Are Not Without Strength.

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

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

Love Is All We Have, The Only Way That Each Can Help The Other.

Every Man Is Like The Company He Wont To Keep.

Necessity Is Harsh. Fate Has No Reprieve.

The Bold Are Helpless Without Cleverness.

The Best Of Seers Is He Who Guesses Well.

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