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.
SOPHOCLESNot 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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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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