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  1. It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
  2. There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
  3. Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared ex…
  4. We count it death to falter, not to die.
  5. A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
  6. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
  7. We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
  8. Not even the gods fight against necessity.

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