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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
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