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Everyone's agreement is obtained by the one who combined the pleasant with the useful.

If you don't run when you're healthy, you'll have to run when you get sick.

If we feel bad now, it will not always be like this in the future.

If your neighbor burns, misfortune threatens you too.

If you are all right with your stomach, chest, legs, no royal treasure will be able to add anything.

If you have something better, propose it; if not - obey.

If you don't want your boyfriend to notice your hump, don't look at his warts either.

The desire to avoid one mistake pushes us to another.

Live, remembering how short life is.

There were brave men before Agamemnon.

After the crime comes the punishment.

The smell that has soaked into the still new vessel will be preserved for a long time.

Learn, artist, that simplicity and unity are needed in everything.

To be liked by great people is not really an honor to refuse.

And all that is hidden underground will come out in time to the light of day!

Keep in mind that every day can be your last.

Sometimes even good Homer snoozes.

The victim is afraid.

What good is it in this fleeting life to accumulate so much?

Like the leaves of the trees that change every year, so the words, living their age, give way to the newly born ones.

What good are harsh laws where there is no morality? What are empty laws without customs?

When the essence of the work is thought out in advance, the words come naturally.

Conciseness is necessary for speech to flow easily and freely.

Who knows, will the gods add tomorrow to the days already passed?

He who puts off putting his life in order is like the fool who waits by the river for all the water to flow.

He who gains much will have much to lose.

He who saves a man against his will does no better than a criminal.

One is in danger because of ambition, another because of money.

Who, leaving his country, can flee himself?

It is easier to bear with patience what we are not given to correct.