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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its... →
Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
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