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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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When trouble ends even troubles please.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
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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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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Biography

Type: Poet
Nationality: Greek
Born: 496 BC
Died: 406 BC

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