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"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

"The dice of Zeus always fall luckily."

"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."

"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied."

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."

"There is no success without hardship."

"Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him."

"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words."

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."

"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

"They command us, though they speak no words."

"What you cannot enforce, do not command!"

"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth."

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