Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLESWhoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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There is no success without hardship.
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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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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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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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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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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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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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