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Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

Love's all in all to women.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

The God knows when to smile.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference.

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

There is safety in numbers.

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Prosperity is full of friends.

BAKKHAI : Holiness
is a word I love to hear,
it sounds like wings to me,
wings brushing the world, grazing my life.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

necessity breaks even the strong.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ...

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way".

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

No one who lives in error is free.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Noble fathers have noble children.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers