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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.

Sophocles

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Good Help Man Misfortune Task
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
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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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
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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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking

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