I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SOPHOCLESStubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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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 concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Do 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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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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