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

Sophocles

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
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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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
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 try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security

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