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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
SOPHOCLES

Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
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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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Opportunity has power over all things.
SOPHOCLES

One Liner Opportunity Power
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
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
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
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.
SOPHOCLES

Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth

You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

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