Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLESKindness will always attract kindness.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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The good befriend themselves.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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