A fearful man is always hearing things.
SOPHOCLESSurely, 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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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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