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.
SOPHOCLESQuick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Who seeks shall find.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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