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" Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. "

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" I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it. "

" All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. "

" One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end. "

" To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. "

" It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. "

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" Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. "

" Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. "

" In soft regions are born soft men. "

" He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold. "

" But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. "

" I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break. "

" Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. "

" Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. "

" A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. "

" The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless. "

" When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. "

" Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. "

" The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. "

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" As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. "

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" It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. "