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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Sophocles

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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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
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
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
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
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

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