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Wealth 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.

Sophocles

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
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
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Conquer Evil Ignorance Tough
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
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom

Wealth 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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