It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
SOPHOCLESIf you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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