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.
SOPHOCLESIt is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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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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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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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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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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