Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
SOPHOCLESA wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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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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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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