Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
SOPHOCLESThe kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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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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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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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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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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