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

Sophocles

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
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
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
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
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant

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