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Quote #1:   "'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
Quote #2:   "Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
Quote #3:   "Sweet is a grief well ended."
Quote #4:   "There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
Quote #5:   "I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."
Quote #6:   "Words are the physicians of the mind diseased."
Quote #7:   "Time as he grows old teaches many lessons."
Quote #8:   "The wisest of the wise may err."
Quote #9:   "Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy."
Quote #10:   "Exiles feed on hope."
Quote #11:   "It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
Quote #12:   "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder."
Quote #13:   "For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
Quote #14:   "A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
Quote #15:   "The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it."
Quote #16:   "When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in."
Quote #17:   "Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart."
Quote #18:   "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
Quote #19:   "There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
Quote #20:   "I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."
Quote #21:   "Time as he grows old teaches all things."
Quote #22:   "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."
Quote #23:   "In war, truth is the first casualty."
Quote #24:   "For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
Quote #25:   "Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
Quote #26:   "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
Quote #27:   "Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy."
Quote #28:   "His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."