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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

ὅστις νέος ὢν Μουσῶν ἀμελεῖ,
τόν τε παρελθόντ᾿ ἀπόλωλε χρόνον
καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα τέθνηκε.

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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

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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.

No! a Spartan maid could not be chaste, e'en if she would, who leaves her home and bares her limbs and lets her robe float free, to share with youths their races and their sports.

Andromache (-425)

One thing only, they say, competes in value with life, the possession of a heart blameless and good.

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