The happiest life is to be without thought.
SOPHOCLESWhat you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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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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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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