No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLESNo speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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There is no success without hardship.
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In season, all is good.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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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.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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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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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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