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For the dead there are no more toils.

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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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