One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLESThe kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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In season, all is good.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Fear? 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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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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