Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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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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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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