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Hesiod: 'Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.'

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Archilochus: 'Old women should not seek to be perfumed.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'I have not yet learned to keep still.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.'

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Apollonius of Tyana: 'All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.'

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Antisthenes: 'I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.'

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Antisthenes: 'Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.'

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Antisthenes: 'Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.'

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Antisthenes: 'Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.'

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Antisthenes: 'The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.'

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