No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SOPHOCLESThere is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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In season, all is good.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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