Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
SOPHOCLESThere is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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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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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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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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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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