It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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There is no success without hardship.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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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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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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