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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.

Sophocles

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
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
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom

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