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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
Topic: Accomplishments
Source: None
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Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
Topic: Action
Source: quoted by Emerson
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Topic: Appearance
Source: None
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Topic: Caution
Source: None
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The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a
famous city.
Topic: Cities
Source: Encomium on Alcibiades, probably quoted
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
Topic: Cleverness
Source: None
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Topic: Consistency
Source: None
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
Topic: Cowards
Source: None
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Topic: Existence
Source: None
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Topic: Fortune
Source: Pirithous
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
Source: None
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To generous souls every task is noble.
Topic: Generosity
Source: None
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It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Topic: Gifts
Source: Medea (964)
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Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Topic: God
Source: None
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Topic: Grief
Source: None
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God helps him who strives hard.
Topic: Help
Source: Eumenidoe
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Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: None
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But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
Topic: Insanity
Source: Fragment (25), (Baine's edition)
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The language of truth is simple.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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But woe to him, who left to moan,
Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
Topic: Memory
Source: Iphigenia in Taurus (l. 1,121), (translation by Anstice)
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Topic: Necessity
Source: None
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy
nature!
Topic: Nobility
Source: Ion (238)
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: None
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For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Topic: Prudence
Source: Pirithous, (adapted)
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked
man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on
the bad.
Topic: Punishment
Source: Fragment
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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
Topic: Punishment
Source: Fragment
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Topic: Quiet
Source: None
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Topic: Relationships
Source: None
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Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
Topic: Results
Source: Frag. Melanip. (Stoboeus)
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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is
turned topsy turvy.)
Topic: Rivers
Source: Medea (409)
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Topic: Romance
Source: None
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Topic: Society
Source: Phoemissoe (frag. 809)
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: Orestes (l. 846)
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Topic: Tears
Source: None
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