Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend...

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend...

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

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

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

A lie never lives to be old.

A lie never lives to be old.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells...

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells...

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

It is best to live however one can be.

It is best to live however one can be.

Success is dependent on effort.

Success is dependent on effort.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead...

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead...

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.