Despair often breeds disease.
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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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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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