No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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• Euripides:

  Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

• Euripides:

  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

• Euripides:

  The wavering mind is but a base possession.

• Euripides:

  To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

• Euripides:

  'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

• Euripides:

  The bold are helpless without cleverness.

• Euripides:

  Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

• Homer:

  Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

• Hesiod:

  A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

• Hesiod:

  False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; s