Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
SOPHOCLESWhoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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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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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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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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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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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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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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