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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
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
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
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
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness

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