Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
SOPHOCLESStubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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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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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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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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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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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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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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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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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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