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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Sophocles

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
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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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Good Help Man Misfortune Task
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
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
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

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