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.
SOPHOCLESTo the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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