If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
SOPHOCLESA trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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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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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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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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