A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Who seeks shall find.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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In season, all is good.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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