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• No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth. -- Theognis (c. 545 BC) -- Maxims, Line 725
• By words the mind is winged -- Aristophanes (c. 450-385 B.C.) -- The Birds (414 B.C.), line 1447
• Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 412...
• For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 265...
• Watch out when the auctioneer calls some nineteenth-century wine "a graceful old lady whose wrinkles are starting to show through layers of makeup.
  That means the wine is undrinkable, and some fool will spend $500 for it. -- Robert Parke...
• When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 500...
• Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 342...
• Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 240...
• 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...