The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SOPHOCLESA man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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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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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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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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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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