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Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so read more
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
All feete tread not in one shoe.
All feete tread not in one shoe.
