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• Wine is wont to show the mind of man. -- Theognis (c. 545 BC) -- Maxims, Line 500
• No one should be judge in his own cause. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 545
• A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 725...
• Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 694...
• A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome
  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
• A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 346...
• On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, -- Hesiod (c.
  700 BC) -- The Theogony, Line 82...
• The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 579...
• By words the mind is winged -- Aristophanes (c. 450-385 B.C.) -- The Birds (414 B.C.), line 1447