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The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
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Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
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How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
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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.
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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.
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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