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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

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
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
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
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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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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One Liner Remember Reward Success
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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

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