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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Sophocles

A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Friendship Victory Win Yourself
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
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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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES

Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
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

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