No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SOPHOCLESYou win the victory when you yield to friends.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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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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Who seeks shall find.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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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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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 better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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