And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
SOPHOCLESBut 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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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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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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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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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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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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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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