I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
Euripides
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
honor man excess love worthiness
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
youth future past learning dead
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
world gold virtue
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
results desire foolish great
You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.
fate sorrow stranger fate&destiny
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
choice danger man brave coward
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
man age courage heaven bear
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
friends save love
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
happiness great
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
wealth moment characters gold
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
wealth happy neighbor
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
loss grief land greater
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
death living tomorrow
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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