Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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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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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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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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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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