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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.

Sophocles

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
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
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man

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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