Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLESWoman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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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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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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