But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLESNo speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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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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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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