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For A Wrongdoer To Be Undetected Is Difficult; And For Him To Have Confidence That His Concealment Will Continue Is Impossible.

It Is Vain To Ask Of The Gods What Man Is Capable Of Supplying For Himself.

Not What We Have But What We Enjoy, Constitutes Our Abundance.

The Wise Man Neither Rejects Life Nor Fears Death... Just As He Does Not Necessarily Choose The Largest Amount Of Food, But, Rather, The Pleasantest Food, So He Prefers Not The Longest Time, But The Most Pleasant.

It Is Folly For A Man To Pray To The Gods For That Which He Has The Power To Obtain By Himself.