All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
SOPHOCLESThe gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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In season, all is good.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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The good befriend themselves.
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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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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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