Periander quotes
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“Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.”
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“Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.”
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“Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.”
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“Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).”
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“Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.”
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“He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.”
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“He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.”
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“He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.”
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“The useful and the beautiful are never separated.”
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“However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.”
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“The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.”
-- PerianderSource : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 1: The Seven Sages, 6, 1925.
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