Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESYou must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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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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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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A lie never lives to be old.
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The good befriend themselves.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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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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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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