Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SOPHOCLESAll concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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