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| Greek proverb
A different man, a different taste.A gift, though small, is welcome.A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.A miser and a liar bargain quickly.A miser is ever in want.A wife brings but two good days, her wedding day and death day.A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.Act as surety; ruin is at hand.Act quickly, think slowly.Act quickly, think slowly.After the war, aid.All things good to know are difficult to learn.An iron rod bends while it is hot.An open enemy is better than a false friend.Be led by reason.Before you can score you must first have a goal.Between Scylla and Charybdis.Character is habit long continued.Death is never at a loss for occasions.Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Fat paunches make lean pates.First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn.God's mill grinds slow but sure.Good accounts make good friends.Good riding at two anchors men have told,
For it one break, the other yet may hold.Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.He is either dead or teaching school.He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.He who respects his parents never dies.I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee.If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.If all men were just, there would be no need of valour.Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.Ill-timed laughter is a dangerous evil.In hospitality, the chief thing is the good will.It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.It is the men who make a city.Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.Kindness begets kindness.Kings have long arms.Kings have many ears and many eyes.Learn to obey before you command.Live today, forget the past.Man is a bubble.Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.Men prone to tears are good.Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end should hear and see more than we speak.Night is the mother of councils.No mill, no meal.No need to teach an eagle to fly.No wisdom like silence.Nothing too much.Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed.Old men are twice children.One minute of patience, ten years of peace.Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.Smoke follows the fairest.Success has many friends.Sweet is the memory of past labor.Swift gratitude is the sweetest.Terrifying are the weaknesses of power.The beginning is the half of every action.The grapes are sour.The net of the sleeper catches fish.The unknown is ever imagined.There is who despises pride with a greater pride.To have a wolf by the ears.To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.Truth lies at the bottom of a well.You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears. |
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