To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
SOPHOCLESI am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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