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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Sophocles

None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
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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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
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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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
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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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom

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