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.
SOPHOCLESFear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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