No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLESA wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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