A fearful man is always hearing things.
SOPHOCLESIt is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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