I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SOPHOCLESWhom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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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.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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