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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Sophocles

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
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
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
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
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Dangerous Evidence Fake Reason
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time

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