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.
SOPHOCLESKindness will always attract kindness.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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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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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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The good befriend themselves.
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