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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Sophocles

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
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
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SOPHOCLES

Death Evil Live Myself Source
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Good Help Man Misfortune Task
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War

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