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Nothing is impossible to industry.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Check disease in its approach.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Each man has his fancy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen
inches.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to
hear it said, "That is he."
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Live according to your income.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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May everything he treads upon become a rose!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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You are too sarcastic.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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I have cut my leg with my own adze.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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The pot boils badly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything,
doing nothing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to
fit it for toil when resumed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Success brings many to ruin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Nothing is impossible to industry.
Topic: Work
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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