A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
SOPHOCLESAll concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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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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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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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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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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A lie never lives to be old.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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