ho, like the gnats, fly
towards every thing brilliant
Museum of Alexandria and the Library
Must take care not to poison the fishes
with it
Must--that word is a ploughshare which
suits only loose soil
Natural impulse which moves all old
women to favor lovers
Nature is sufficient for us
Never speaks a word too much or too
little
Never so clever as when we have to find
excuses for our own sins
Never to be astonished at anything
No judgment is so hard as that dealt by
a slave to slaves
No man is more than man, and many men
are less
No man was allowed to ask anything of
the gods for himself
No good excepting that from which we
expect the worst
No, she was not created to grow old
No happiness will thrive on bread and
water
No one we learn to hate more easily,
than the benefactor
No man gains profit by any experience
other than his own
No false comfort, no cloaking of the
truth
No one so self-confident and insolent
as just such an idiot
No virtue which can be owned like a
house or a steed
Nobody was allowed to be perfectly idle
None of us really know anything rightly
Not yet fairly come to the end of
yesterday
Nothing in life is either great or
small
Nothing is perfectly certain in this
world
Nothing permanent but change
Nothing so certain as that nothing is
certain
Nothing is more dangerous to love, than
a comfortable assurance
Numbers are the only certain things
Observe a due proportion in all things
Obstacles existed only to be removed
Obstinacy--which he liked to call firm
determination
Of two evils it is wise to choose the
lesser
Often happens that apparent superiority
does us damage
Old women grow like men, and old men
grow like women
Old age no longer forgets; it is youth
that has a short memory
Olympics--The first was fixed 776 B.C.
Omnipotent God, who had preferred his
race above all others
On with a new love when he had left the
third bridge behind him
Once laughed at a misfortune, its sting
loses its point
One falsehood usually entails another
One of those women who will not bear to
be withstood
One should give nothing up for lost
excepting the dead
One hand washes the other
One must enjoy the time while it is
here
One who stood in the sun must need cast
a shadow on other folks
One Head, instead of three, ruled the
Church
Only the choice between lying and
silence
Only two rem
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