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Kindness will always attract kindness.

Sophocles

Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SOPHOCLES

Kindness One Liner
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
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
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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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend

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