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No One Goes To Hades With All His Immense Wealth. -- Theognis (c.
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No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.
-- Theognis (c. 545 BC)
-- Maxims, Line 725
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Wine is wont to show the mind of man. -- Theognis (c. 545 BC) -- Maxims, Line 500
No one should be judge in his own cause. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 545
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 725...
Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 694...
A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 346...
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, -- Hesiod (c.
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The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 579...
By words the mind is winged -- Aristophanes (c. 450-385 B.C.) -- The Birds (414 B.C.), line 1447