A fearful man is always hearing things.
SOPHOCLESAll concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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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.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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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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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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