One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLESA wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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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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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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