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Time cleanses what it touches over time.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Know not to revere human things too much.
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.
To many mortals silence great gain brings.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Truth is always the first casualty of war.
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
He hears but half who hears one party only.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.
For the mighty, even to give away is grace.
It is through suffering that learning comes.
In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
If you are not envied, you are not enviable.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
God ever works with those who work with will.
As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.
It is always the season for the old to learn.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.