Despair often breeds disease.
SOPHOCLESIt is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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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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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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