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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

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
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
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
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
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
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
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity

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