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Love thyself, and many will hate thee.
Frag. 146.
Practice in time becomes second nature.[707:5]
Frag. 227.
When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason.[707:6]
Frag. 379.
When I am dead let fire destroy the world;
It matters not to me, for I am safe.
Frag. 430.
Toil does not come to help the idle.
Frag. 440.
Footnotes
[707:5] Custom is almost a second nature.—Plutarch: Rules for the Preservation of Health, 18.
[707:6] See Dryden, page 269.
This may have been the original of the well known (but probably post-classical) line, "Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius." Publius Syrus has, "Stultum facit fortuna quem vult perdere."
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