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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
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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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
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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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support

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