One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLESNot to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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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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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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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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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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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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In season, all is good.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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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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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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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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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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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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