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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season

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