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You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
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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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
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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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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