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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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A man growing old becomes a child again.

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Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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