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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

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So do not fear this marriage with your mother;
Many a man has suffered this before—
But only in his dreams.

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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

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No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

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One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

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Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

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A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

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What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

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Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

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No man loves life like him that's growing old.

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Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.

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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.

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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.

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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

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Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

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Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

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Someone asked Sophocles, 'How is your sex-life now? Are you still able to have a woman?' He replied, 'Hush, man; most gladly indeed am I rid of it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.'

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War never slays a bad man in its course,
But the good always!

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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

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When a man has lost all happiness,
he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare — I have no use for him, either.

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