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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Sophocles

Knowledge must come through action.
SOPHOCLES

Action Knowledge
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
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
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth

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