The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLESHide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Who seeks shall find.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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