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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
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Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.
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Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.
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Decide no suit until you have heard both sides speak.
And he called this woman Pandora, because all they who dwelt on Olympus gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread.
But the rest, countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full.
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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
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The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.
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The generation of the man who swears truly is better thenceforward.
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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
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Wealth should not be seized: god-given wealth is much better.
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The best treasure a man can have is a sparing tongue.
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The man who trusts womankind trusts deceivers.
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It will not always be summer, build barns.
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Plan harm for another and harm yourself most,
the evil we hatch always comes home to roost.
It's no good at all for a man to be just
When the unjust man gets more than what's just.
For then it is a bad thing to be righteous — if indeed the unrighteous shall have the greater right.
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