Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SOPHOCLESDo 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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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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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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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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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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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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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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