Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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