A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Better not to exist than live basely.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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