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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

Sophocles

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
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
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
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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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

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