“When the candles are out all women are fair.”

Plutarch
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“One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost.”

Pyrrhus
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“Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.”

Anacharsis
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“It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.”

Agesilaus II
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“This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer.”

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“Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, But we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.”

Solon
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“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”

Heraclitus
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“Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.”

Themistocles
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“Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time.”

Pericles
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“He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.”

Plutarch
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