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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Sophocles

Not 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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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
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
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
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
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
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use

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