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.
SOPHOCLESWhat fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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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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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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There is no success without hardship.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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