The tyrant is a child of pride.
SOPHOCLESHe who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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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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Opportunity has power over all things.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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