The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
SOPHOCLESWealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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There is no success without hardship.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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