If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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There is no success without hardship.
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In season, all is good.
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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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