Greek proverbs
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own.
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In business you need two Jews for one Greek, two Greeks for one Syrian and two Syrians for one Armenian.
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If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.
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Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.
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The house of envy lies in the lowest hollows, golden, sunless, breathed upon by no wind, grim and filled full of inert chill, and lacking warmth, is always roiled in fog.
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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
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