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I 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.

Sophocles

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
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
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
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
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
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
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
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking

I 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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