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Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
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
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
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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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom

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