- Nov 07, 2020
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- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fool knows after he's suffered.
- Idleness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
- Nov 07, 2020
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
- Grudge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
- Trust
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will not always be summer; build barns.
- Misfortune
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
- Nov 07, 2020
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
- Flourishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020