Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLESThe soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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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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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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