Despair often breeds disease.
SOPHOCLESWise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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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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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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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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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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In season, all is good.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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