Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLESChildren are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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