Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SOPHOCLESWhat greater wound is there than a false friend?
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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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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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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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 what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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There is no success without hardship.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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