You win the victory when you yield to friends.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
Love is like ice in the hands of children.
To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
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