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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Sophocles

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
SOPHOCLES

Blind Man See
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
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
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
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
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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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
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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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
The 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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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

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