It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLESIt is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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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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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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