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Envy bestrides praise.
Even genius is tied to profit.
Learn what you are and be such.
Mankind is a dream of a shadow.
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
Convention is the ruler of all.
Water is the best of all things.
The present will not long endure.
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
The best of healers is good cheer.
The test of any man lies in action.
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
The noblest of the elements is water
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
War is sweet to them that know it not.
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
War is sweet to those who never tried it.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
I will be small in small things, great among great.
Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.