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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
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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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

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