Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLESAll is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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