Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
SOPHOCLESIt 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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Without labor nothing prospers.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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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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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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