Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLESThe truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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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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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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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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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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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