If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLESIt is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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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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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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In season, all is good.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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