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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
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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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
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
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
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
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

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