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• There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

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  Women, Sea, Land

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• No just person ever became quickly rich.

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  Wealth, Rich, Persons

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• To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

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  Men, Self, Helping

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• He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

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  War, Iron, Clothes

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• If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

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  Pain, Men, Comfort

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• By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

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  Evil, Excess, Goodness

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• Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

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  Heart, Giving, Praying

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• The good man makes others good.

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  Men, Good Man, Goodness

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• All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

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  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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• Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

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  Courage, Choices, Bravery

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• The character of a man is known from his conversations.

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  Character, Men, Conversation

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• A man that runs away may fight again.

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  Running, War, Fighting

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• Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

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  Drinking, Sea, Land

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• The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

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  School, Experience, Curriculum

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• Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

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  Evil, Faces, Truth Is

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• Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.

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  Experience, Happened

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• In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

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  People, Know Thyself, Wells

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• I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

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  Figs, Spades

  Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, "Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta", 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in ‪"Menander: The Principal Fragments"‬‎ by Francis Greenleaf Allinson, 1921.

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• It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

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  Hands, Stones, Easy

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• At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

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  Play, Fool, Should

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• Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

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  Pieces, Moments, Assured

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• There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Love You

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• It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

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  Communication, Evil, Disposition

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