Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
SOPHOCLESThings gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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In season, all is good.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Who seeks shall find.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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