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 1      I, 2 |          might be illustrated by saying, "The fact that he breathes
 2      I, 7 |        seldom useful, whence the saying:~The best of things is water.~
 3      I, 9 |           for men are ashamed of saying, doing, or intending to
 4      I, 9 |     higher he rises. Compare the saying of Iphicrates, "Think what
 5      I, 15|          you may aptly quote the saying of Xenophanes,~"Tis not
 6     II, 2 |         it consists in doing and saying things that cause shame
 7     II, 10|     beyond all others. Hence the saying:~Potter against potter.~
 8     II, 16|      begging from you. Hence the saying of Simonides about wise
 9     II, 21|          ought not to follow the saying that bids us treat our friends
10     II, 21|          our friends, not as the saying advises, but as if they
11     II, 21|         it, I disapprove of that saying. A true friend will treat
12     II, 21|          Nor do I approve of the saying "nothing in excess": we
13     II, 22|          we shall waste words in saying what is manifest. It is
14     II, 23|           For instance, it was a saying of Xenophanes that to assert
15     II, 24|      Again, there is Polycrates’ saying that Thrasybulus put down
16    III, 10|      Cephisodotus was indignant, saying that he wanted his examination
17    III, 10|      future action. So is such a saying as "This treaty is a far
18    III, 11|         the words say: as in the saying of Stesichorus that "the
19    III, 11|          In both these cases the saying must fit the facts. This
20    III, 11|       would be nothing clever is saying "empire is empire". Isocrates
21    III, 11|           So too with the former saying, which denies that arche
22    III, 11|          not be", &c., amount to saying that the stranger must not
23    III, 11|         for you.~This amounts to saying "it is a fit thing to die
24    III, 11|       fit for death". The more a saying has these qualitis, the
25    III, 15|        against your actual deed; saying, for instance, that you
26    III, 16|          happy mean; that is, in saying just so much as will make
27    III, 17|         is what Gorgias meant by saying that he always found something
28    III, 17| describing its good results, and saying what it is like.~Now if