Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
SOPHOCLESQuick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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In season, all is good.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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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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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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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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There is no success without hardship.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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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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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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