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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
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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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
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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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
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
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad

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